I HATE THE NEW LAYOUT. Thankfully they've allowed us to keep the old layout - for now. I only need to use literally two functions for my daily workflow - page arrange and recognize text. For such basic functions they've sure buried them. Really aggravating with this BS. :-(

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 can be more productive & get more out of Acrobat.

Our users always play an integral role in shaping our product. Extensive customer research and invaluable insights from our users led us to reimagine the existing Acrobat viewer experience.

In the modern viewer, we've maintained a keen awareness of the tools our users are accustomed to. These tools retain their familiar functionalities and workflows designed to work as seamlessly as they did in the older version.

Extensive research, testing, and iterative refinement led us to a pivotal decision—creating three core categories known as mega verbs. These mega verbs—Edit, Convert, and Sign—serve as comprehensive groupings for over 250 individual tools spread across 26 verbs.

The new framework comprises the following characteristics:
• The hamburger menu is a comprehensive Windows-only menu that combines all the options in the currently available File, Edit, and View menus. On macOS, the File, Edit, and View menus continue to appear separately.
• The 'All tools’ panel lets you access the whole list of Acrobat tools from your document.
• The global bar provides a single-entry point to tools such as Edit, Convert, and Sign without losing or changing their document view. This lends fluidity and enhances usability as it allows users to seamlessly switch between Editing text, Re-arranging pages and then Sending for signing.
• The quick tools panel consists of individual tools, such as annotating and filling out forms. This panel can also be customized for specific workflow requirements.
• The search field allows you to not only search for content within the document but also find and access tools.
• The right rail is from where you can bookmark, view, or navigate pages and access zoom settings and viewing options.

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 tried to ensure all tools & features that are currently supported, retain their familiar functionalities and workflows as they did in the previous version. We are committed to address any gaps or issues reported by users related to any break in current workflows in all our past & upcoming releases. In case any of your current workflows are not functioning as expected, do share it with us on this thread, and we will address them with the highest priority..

In case any of your critical workflows are impacted, and you have the option to switch back to the old UI from the “Menu” on the top left corner on windows, and View Menu on MacOS.

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 !