Photoshop CS4, do you talk to any actual photographers?

Question

Every time I use the new Photoshop CS4 which is part of my CS4 design standard I get so annoyed with you lot at Adobe. What have you done, I don't think you actually take any advice from real photographers who are using your product every day. Sure you may talk to the occasional photographer who is happy to spend 10 hours on one image, paid for by a huge client. But what about everyday professionals that use photoshop as an important tool in their everyday digital workflow.
What I like in the new CS4;
The quick selection tool,
The clone stamp preview.
What I hate about CS4;
1. New screen mode functions, when you select 'full screen mode with menu bar' the image now anchors to the bottom of the screen. How stupid was that? Not only is that where the auto dock will appear on a mac, but I need to see beyond the bottom edge of the image, unless you can see beyond the bottom edge, you do not know where the bottom edge is. Sure you can use the hand tool to re-position the image but as soon as you touch the navigator to re-size, down it jumps to the bottom of the screen. It used to float freely in CS3, why change it.
2. No contact sheet II in the automate menu. Now you want me to create contact sheets in pdf format. I am a professional photographer, I use a professional lab for printing, professional labs want image files like jpegs or tiffs not pdf's. Who thought that was a good idea? not a photographer. Your solution is to load the 'legacy version' as a plug-in. The fact you have withdrawn it from CS4 demonstrates you don't understand the business of professional photography.
3. Colour labels used in CS4 bridge aren't recognised by lightroom2. CS4 bridge cant read CS2 Bridge colour labels. Why not? it's just simple metadata and they are all Adobe products.
There are other niggles but these three affect my workflow detrimentally and I get annoyed with you lot at Adobe every day, not because I'm a grumpy old whatsit but because you software designers/engineers change things and you obviously don't know how they are used in the real world. You also develop ridiculous things like the aptly named 'image toss' what is the point of that? As a piece of software it might be very clever but I can't see how it will ever be useful.

Answer 1

Ramón G Castañeda wrote:
Let's get two points straight, right off the bat:  I'm neither your friend nor am I itching for a fight with you.  I can't engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person
Bravo, good sir, nice job defending a phrase that's meant to be rhetorical.  I think we'll call it a day on that point.
Ramón G Castañeda wrote:
Wrong again.  I commented on someone who quoted a post that turned out to be from you.  I was not addressing you.  It had nothing to do with "not resisting" anything.
The plonking scripts have not yet been customized to work in these new forums.  In the meantime, your posts are visible to me.  C'est la vie… 
You announced to the Adobe community that you were going to ignore me in this thread and it happened to be your one and only post (had nothing to do with the topic):  "Plonking V6 :/ No offense, V6. This just means I won't see your posts anymore, that's all."  Seems like you didn't need a plonking script then to make that claim.  You then proceeded to reply to my post in this thread and I simply ignored you.  Your assertion that you "commented on someone who quoted a post that turned out to be from you" is BS.  There was no quote--just my original post that you replied to.  So either be prepared to follow through or get called on it, ok?
Ramon, let's get to the bottom line...  I'm specifically calling you out because in typical Internet-bully fashion you hide behind your computer and blow spitballs at anyone who would even dare to cross you.  You're one of the most vocal in the community and from what I've observed and experienced in the last few months is that any good information you've got to share is drowned out by this vicious jekyll and hyde show.  At least this is true for any newcomers that happen to stop by.  For example, you make questionable statements like, "Really, if I'd known we were discussing MacBooks, I wouldn't even had [sic] read the thread. :/", disparaging comments like, "Your post is a little too long to read in its entirety..." as in the beginning of this thread, or ludicrous claims like, "It's very unlikely that Adobe staff who drop by as volunteers, on their own time and dime, will respond to this [sic] type of questions.  It's futile to ask why. It just  is." and then an Adobe staff member comes along and responds.
So grow up...  let's all grow up.  I feel that along with the new forum, we should also usher in a new attitude as posted in the Forum Etiquette and Best Practices thread.  Not to rely on simple stereotypes, but this isn't some gaming or car forum full of teenagers.  I hope I speak for all newcomers (and maybe some vets) when I say I want a professional forum.  We're supposed to be professionals in our respective fields.  We participate in this community to better our knowledge of PS and other Adobe products that we rely on on a daily basis.  I don't put down my colleagues who I work with on a daily basis and I shouldn't expect this type of behavior amongst my online peers, either.