Photoshop CC Additional Plugins Folder

Why on earth would Adobe remove the ability to point to a folder for additional plug-ins? I'm sure they will have lots of good reasons. However, the standard folder is embedded in the AppData folder in Windows. That folder resides on the system (C:) drive. I always install Plugs in a folder on a separate drive on my system (D:) so as to make it easy to manage and navigate.   Bad choice, guys.

Because the plugins folder is just for third party plugins, and because we saw the additional plugins folder mis-used (and causing problems for the user) far more often than it was used correctly.
Plus you can always use a shortcut to another folder from within the plugins folder.

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