I AGREE WITH ALL OF YOU!! THE PREVIOUS VERSION WAS PERFECT! I CAN JUSTIFY THE COST FOR THE SUBSCRIPTION BECAUSE USING THIS PRODUCT HELPS SIGNIFICANTLY IN MY DAY-TO-DAY WORK. SPENDING HOURS TRYING TO "FIGURE OUT" THE NEW "IMPROVEMENTS" IS NOT MY IDEA OF EFFICIENCY.

LUCKILY I FOUND THIS: YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS VERSION BY CLICKING THE THREE HORIZONTAL LINES NEXT TO "MENU". GO DOWN 2/3 OF THE WAY AND CLICK "DISABLE NEW ACROBAT". THANK GOD FOR THIS OPTION!! :) -M

I second what Joel said. And very well said it was, these generic replies from big corps are what destroys faith in products from users. What happened to user voice! Some top dev has made a decision and it's distasteful. Why break something that's not broken. Nobody asked for a simplified user interface! Making changes to justify the annual extortionate software cost is beyond me. Fix what's broken and leave what isn't. Users and admins would appreciate this much more and happily pay for it to be left alone!

This is a response to Amit Kumar Jain:

I read your comment and while YOU think this is so much better, it is apparent from the multitude of comments here that we USERS hate it. Okay, it sounds like you have decided it will stay and that will push me to look for alternatives.

You have accomplished something that only YOU could possibly think this new ***** UI is better or in any way useful to users. We hate it!

Keep this attitude of how great it is (in your opinion) and push the rest of us away. Whatever you "aimed" to do, you have failed miserably!

We appreciate your valuable feedback! We're always looking for ways to make Acrobat better, and we appreciate the time and effort you have taken to share your feedback with us. 

We acknowledge that the new Acrobat represents a notable change, however we hope that as you get familiar with the new interface, you are able to be more productive & get more out of Acrobat.

With the new interface we aim to

1.Provide a simplified viewing experience that helps reduce clutter & optimise it for most used PDF actions that are relevant while viewing a document.

2. Easily allow users to discover PDF tools they need by ensuring tools are intuitively grouped and a click away,

**For example, all tools that allow content, page & file level edits can be found under one action based verb called “Edit”; tools that allow converting files to & from PDFs can be found under “Convert”; tools that allow filling & signing documents or requesting signatures from others under “Sign”.

3. Most importantly, the new interface enables users to effortlessly move between different PDF tools to complete their document related tasks

**For example, someone viewing comments in a PDF should also be able to easily edit the text of it without interrupting their workflow

**A user can seamlessly perform page level edits such as reordering, inserting, extracting, rotating or deleting pages while editing content and/or commenting on the file

We would also like to highlight that we have exhaustively tested these changes with users over the past 12 months, keenly monitoring user behaviour & addressing top user issues before gradually rolling out the new interface to the Acrobat user base

A point to note is that as we made these changes in the interface, we have ensured all tools & features that are currently supported, retain their familiar functionalities and workflows as they did in the previous version. We are proactively addressing any gaps or issues reported by users related to any break in current workflows.

We will follow up on this response with a detailed blog post explaining the changes, a guide to help familiarise you to the new interface, along with regular updates on upcoming changes.

Thank you once again for your feedback, and do look forward to our upcoming releases !

Hit Menu within the new version > Disable new acrobat half way down.

On old (working) experience hit View > Enable new acrobat.

Totally agree Adobe need to stop changing things that aren't broken. Software as a service shouldn't need constant change to incentivise users to keep paying them. Just fix what's needed, there was no overhaul needed...

My concern is there is no published timeline for the new experience. Nowhere mentions when this option will be removed and this is concerning given the state of the "Bad experience".

Yeah, I think you're comment is based on the ability to disable the editing protection. There is nothing that allows for the disabling of this ****** user interface.

How can you disable it? I HATE this stupid upgraded version!