@vectoradmin said in Disabling automatic transform shape effect?:
The Transform Content only affects the stroke if it was explicitly selected on the stroke content. It will not affect it if it is selected on other things (that is done by Transform Stroke, which in this case should be unchecked).
So I would leave these at default settings (and Transform Stroke is off in Document Setup -> General).
Well yes, but remember that I was trying to use this as a workaround for the transform shape effect displacement bugs ( I have just posted a topic with gif to show that it still does occur, will post another for the applying shape ). So in the case of an open path the stroke is the only content to select in order to enable "Transform content" and avoid the shape effect.