More examples here of same issue:
https://community.zazzle.com/t5/ask-a-question/how-do-you-ungroup-or-lock-designs-in-the-new-design-...
It's got to be a "bug" and a pretty big one at that. Now that Designers & Customers alike experience the same interface, we're being prevented from editing elements same as a customer would be if we disabled something. They forgot to leave a key for Designers to get into their own house so to speak.
This is a sample test card I just made using the new interface.
Even though the two Disabled elements are grayed-out on the Layers panel, I as the Designer can still edit them by clicking on them from the image pane. (Selecting them from the Layers panel is glitchy, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.)
For the two layers I only applied the Lock to - I as the designer can edit those if I first toggle off the Lock icon from the layers panel.
In contrast, if I open this product I made under the old interface,
there are no Lock icons showing so I have to assume that for some reason I published it with everything Disabled. (Or, more likely, I published them as Locked layers but they were converted to Disabled under the new system.) But now as the Designer, I can do absolutely nothing with all the grayed-out layers. There is NO way for me to activate any of these layers for editing. None. I am as restricted as a customer would be in trying to change anything.
If I recall correctly, when the Lock behavior changed, existing design elements that were Locked were automatically changed to being Disabled. That was a thoughtful process in continuing to protect elements Designers had Locked for good reason. But something went wrong in the conversion as now elements that were Disabled, or maybe just Locked under the old system and converted to being Disabled, are now un-editable to even the orig Designer.
