I'd like to see the old icons (or at least their colors) make a return.
Perhaps a total reversion is too much to ask, but my proposal may be a desirable option. If for some reason Adobe wishes to retain these icons, I strongly believe it would be extremely welcome for Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop to have an option to switch between the current icons and legacy icons at the choice of the user.

I believe I speak for many users or, shall I say, "creators" when I say that the rather recent changes to the icons for the different Adobe software has had a 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 impact on our workflow.

For years, our eyes have been trained and grown more than accustomed to the colors that have corresponded with their applications and arbitrarily changing the design and color of the icons has caused much too many inconveniences.

For example; I've been using Flash/Animate for years now, my earliest experience dating back to Macromedia Flash MX and my time as a user of the plugin predates this as well. For the majority of my life, the color of Flash(Now Animate) was red, so the red icon is what I instinctively attempt to click on. Of course, I obviously cannot locate the red icon as the majority of applications in the Adobe Suite have become a what I'd call a barely distinguishable purple. I don't know why the idea to make the icons so similar was conceived, let alone approved and implemented, but multitasking and running the applications simultaneously is quite hellish. Sure, it doesn't cripple the features, but it does hurt the workflow for no good justifiable reason.

I say this change is counter-intuitive and hurts the experienced creators (Creators sounds good) and changing it back could hurt the newer creators at a later date if they, by some miracle, 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙬 become accustomed to purplish shades.

I'd be thrilled to see a solution here that doesn't require us to just get used to spending more time to search the taskbar. As far as I'm concerned, Adobe broke something that didn't need to be "fixed". This change wastes time and time is money and Adobe knows that because Adobe loves money, amirite? Perhaps even blinded by the money, because whoever decided to do this clearly can't see the difference between the colors and that makes me even more concerned, since colors is the concept that most of Adobe's software is designed for.

On a side note, I'm not actually a professional and the few seconds wasted while tabbing through programs isn't going to count towards any significant deadlines or hurt contracts or potential profits on my end, but it probably can for others. Even though I'm technically just a hobbyist, I still feel that those seconds add up and that sucks to think about for something I'm always paying for since Adobe dropped perpetual licensing for in favor of some leach of a subscription model, but that's another topic and I'm wasting enough time on this.

With all that said, I'm wishing that Adobe would take this into consideration and help us relieve the colorblindness that they have so suddenly bestowed upon us.