Please fix this selection issue

Using Mac OS on SKetchCloud team setup.
Issue: The new Athens version has made selecting multiple objects very frustrating. It used to be easy but now it’s a major usability issue.
Cause: the hover zone has increased in size to change the selection cursor to either resize or rotate. Also it is on by default and it interferes with basic selection of objects.
Background: Prior to Athens, the select cursor ruled - and if you had to rotate an object you could simply press the Option key while clicking a handle to switch to a rotate cursor. Great feature!
Now with Athens, if objects are close to each other and you need to select both, the cursor auto switches to rotate after the first selection click and it takes multiple clicks to select both using various techniques. I estimate I am using 100s of needless clicking every day because of this frustrating usability issue. Not good!

Recommendation: Either put it back the way it was and educate users about the key+click rotation - or make the hover zone for cursor change much, much, much, MUCH smaller.

This is my number 1 issue right now.

Number 2 is that sometimes copying and pasting objects from one artboard to another in the exact same position just doesn’t work. I’ve encountered weird cases that defy explanation. Even pasting from one frame into another frame. I will try to capture the next odd case that comes up and post it here.

Thanks!

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble with these changes.

The rotating change is a deliberate feature adjustment. While I understand it may be an issue for you, others find it useful. The best way forward is to open it up for discussion through a “Suggest an Idea” topic, where people can vote and share their preferred functionality. We can’t promise a change, but this is currently the most effective way to gather feedback. I can create the topic for you, or you’re welcome to do so yourself and explain in detail what you’d prefer. Let me know what works best for you.

Regarding the second change, feel free to share an example of the issue you encountered. We’ll gladly take a look.

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Yes please go ahead and add this as a feature request - bug fix. The current implementation is not an improvement. Honestly I don’t have time as I have to go back to clicking my mouse to select more than one object that is near another object. All of the workarounds for this are kludgey at best. This is a really simple fix, easily proven with a quick usability study. Thanks!