Changing user interfaces for productivity?

(written by Lawrence Krubner, however indented passages are often quotes)

Back in the 90s, when I did graphics work, I used Photoshop everyday. I considered myself a true expert.

Just now I wanted to make some trivial changes to a screenshot, so I opened it in CS 4 Photoshop. I spent 15 minutes looking for the move tool. I went to Google and looked up various tutorials, trying to figure out where the tool bar had gone. None of the tutorials seemed to describe what I was dealing with.

In the end, I gave up in defeat.

I hate it when an interface is changed to make it more “intuitive” and the result is that I’m unable to use the software.