Move Tool: Toggle auto select shortcut changed

Question

The changed shortcuts to toggle the autoselection of layers with the move tool selected is highly frustrating to me. I used to have a great workflow with auto select turned on and used cmd to drag elements that were either off-canvas or too small / too transparent to grab them.
I used to have good time moving layers with Command hold, now holding Cmd toggles Layer/Group selection
How can I change it to previous behaviour?

Answer 1

Before:
You really only needed to uncheck Auto-select when you wanted to use the layser stack to make your selection on what to move. This could be useful, especially if you had lots overlapping layers but in most web-design workflows was rather an exception than the rule.
Holding down CTRL while in another tool, such as the Brush or Selection Rectangle or Lasso temporarily enabled the Move-Tool in whatever mode you had last set it when in the tool. That is similar in behaviour displayed by the color picker tool, which has several different picker modes that can be set with the tool active and that are applied when the temporary picker is used (by pressing ALT while using most tools that deals with pixel manipulation like the Brush and Pencil Tool ).
Now:
In Move Tool, Auto-Select Checked
Holding Down CTRL will switch selection mode from Layer to Group and vice versa.
In Move Tool, Auto-Select Unchecked
Holding Down CTRL will toggle Auto-Select On and Off
Releasing CTRL will revert to non-Auto-Select-Mode where you can move stuff around regardless on where you click in the workspace. So basically this is like it was before, only inverted.
And here comes the catch, these are all possible scenariosthat can occur with the Move-Tools settings:
Outside Move-Tool, Auto-Select Checked, Layer-Selection Mode active
CTRL will still activate the Move-Tool, but it will invoke the Group-Selection
Outside Move-Tool, Auto-Select Checked, Group-Selection Mode active
CTRL will activate the Move-Tool and will invoke the Layer-Selection. This feels as it was before.
Outside Move-Tool, Auto-Select Unchecked, Layer-Selection Mode active
will activate the Move-Tool and will invoke the Layer-Selection.
Outside Move-Tool, Auto-Select Unchecked, Group-Selection Mode active
will activate the Move-Tool and will invoke the Layer-Selection.
And this interrelation of behaviours is, what causes the problem. You need different settings for the Move-Tool to get the same action out of the temporary Move-Tool that you would get from the ragular Move-Tool.
I see what they were shooting for with this change. The new functionality is not unusable, but it has flaws that interrupt a workflow that many users rely on.
A compromise might be reached, by assigning the Layer/Group Toggle to another Function-Key combination like CTRL+ALT.
In the meantime, please do as you promised: roll back this change and re-introduce it, once the flaws have been ironed out. If I remember correctly, one of the often mentioned advantages of the Creative Cloud-model was the rapidity of updates. It is now up to you to make good on that claim. Please do.