Problem: Bring forward shortrcut (cmd+alt+up/down) rotates the object

Agreed, I don’t understand the logic here — how is it intuitive for rotating clockwise/counter-clockwise to map to up/down arrows? At the very least, shouldn’t this be left/right arrows?

Either way, huge +1 that longstanding hotkeys should never be silently changed. Really poor experience here. Hoping this gets reverted so the team can be a bit more thoughtful about the decision here.

I'm glad this post already exists. There's nothing worse than changing established shortcuts that you constantly use when working with a layout. If you compare the frequency of layer reordering with the need to rotate a layer, I'm sure the result would be unfavorable. Who even thought of reassigning the most frequently used shortcut to a rare action and ruining the user experience?

Same. This isn’t just muscle memory getting irritated. It isn’t intuitive to think brackets have a relation to layers.

Plz!

For anyone struggling with this issue using a non-US layout on a Mac, you can create custom shortcuts in the Keyboard section in System Settings. For a Finnish layout, I used option-cmd-Ä/Ö, seems to work so far.

This workaround obviously does NOT mean that this issue should not be fixed by the Figma devs. Moving a shortcut like this behind a key that does not exist on international keyboards is beyond arrogant.

Honestly, one of the worst if not the worst changes I’ve experienced in Figma in 3 years of usage.
IF you do something in the name of Accessibility, give us the option to choose.
The fact that we cannot change shortcuts unlike many editing software (Cubase, for example) is just frustrating and lackluster. 

Next time, the minimum is a popup that tells us “Hey! We’ve made a few changes!”

0% thinking about the user, 100% doing what the f you want..

I agree, revert it or let users customize shortcuts!! These were one of the most important shortcuts that I use. Plus, for me the new shortcuts to bring back/front doesn’t work. SUPER annoying. 

Hot fixed?

I wish.
They doubled down.
Farewell to my fast workflow.

Bring back the moving the layer up down to CTRL + ALT + Up/Down. you know why is is it so bad? A few reasons:
• Muscle memory of years in the workflow as a designer is broken.
• ] [ are in the middle of the keyboard, not at the bottom of the keyboard. Buttons on the bottom of the keyboard are easier to access and identify.
• Before, an up arrow lifts a layer up, a down arrow lowers a layer down. Now? It's right and left.
• There was no indication of an update or change, it just happened without telling anyone.
• The article also doesn't say anything except a link to "We changed the keyboard a bit", and when you go to the second article, this change is also not shown there.
• You were wrong. This abbreviation, according to you, was not used much, but the people on their forums argue with Figma that they do.
• It is not possible, at all, to change keyboard shortcuts in Figma.
• Now, the old shortcut just rotates the selection to the right or left (with an up or down arrow) by a few degrees. Not intuitive.

Of course, I think accessibility is an important issue, and the choice to change some processes and design to make it easier to use Figma with only a keyboard may be a little strange to designers, but legitimate. From here to completely unilaterally changing a feature that is being used without updating, that's another story.