I use Premiere Pro for my YT vids. It's what I learned in high school, it's all I know despite trying other programs, and now that I'm back in college for an RTF associates it means I get all the apps for very cheap through my community college. There is a lot to hate about Adobe, and I probably hate them for the same reasons you do. But the biggest thing, to me, is that every once in awhile they update something that fucks with my muscle memory in some way.
Recently, there's been an update that changes how the timeline works. The smaller issue is that the colors of clips & footage types in the timeline have changed, the larger issue is that the vertical size of clips in the timeline has changed. A lot of my muscle memory of making videos for Implaysibly Average for the last 5-ish years has been based around this default vertical size. For example, I record "blank" tracks in OBS when I'm just recording footage and not streaming. OBS is also my streaming program, and having all the different audio sources on different tracks makes sense there, but it doesn't make sense to check which tracks are recording to MKV every time I open OBS, so I keep it at my maximum at all times. Before this last update, the four tracks (two empty, two recorded) all fit perfectly horizontal in my timeline, no need to scroll up or down in the timeline. This update has increased the default horizontal size of clips, which completely throws off this muscle memory I've developed, as now I do have to scroll to see all 4 tracks.
This isn't the first time this has happened. When creating sequences, I used muscle memory to get to the sequence preset I wanted. There was some 1080p preset that I used all the time, that was in a specific folder, and I'd use that. And because I used that all the time, I never needed to select it. Some update ago they changed the location of all the presets but didn't remove the ones I used, AFAIK. So when I made my first video in this update, in a project that existed before the update, the new sequence selected was something that had a mono channel. I, obviously, didn't see this because I didn't realize this changed since it wasn't mentioned in the "here's whats new in Premiere" slideshow that shows up when big updates happen. So I make my video and realize my tracks and sounds don't look right, and I full-on panic. Did I record the footage wrong? Is my Premiere busted? Will I need to reinstall things? What the fuck could have possibly happened? Until finally I figured out that, for some reason, I was getting defaulted into some mono-audio, made-for-broadcast preset that didn't exist the last time I opened up Premiere instead of the preset I had been using this whole time, that was already selected before, that still existed but now in the "Legacy" folder.
This shit sucks. I don't know why these changes are happening, and who likes them, and why there isn't something saying "hey! your presets changed!" or something. I don't know why you'd fuck over my muscle memory like this. And I'm just a hobbyist at best! Imagine how fucking aggravating this would be if this was your job to edit videos in these programs and, whoops, the changes have changed the basics of how you interact with the program! I'd explode in rage.