Where did ‘Automatic’ go?

If you have updated to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC2015.5 recently, and you have tried to stitch a panorama photo in Lightroom using the ‘Photomerge’ option, you may have wondered where the ‘Automatic’ projection has gone. Up till Lightroom CC2015.4, the Merge to Panorama dialog did not only contain three manual projection options (Spherical, Cylindrical, Perspective), but also an ‘Automatic’ option. In Lightroom CC2015.5 the latter is gone. The reason is actually quite simple: Adobe was cheating on you. Automatic projection never existed, ‘Automatic’ was always Spherical…