As was pointed out before, sometimes when you move and place parts, they stay selected. Especially after you add a new part. And then when you focus on something else trying to move or edit completely different component somewhere else on the page, the selected one (maybe even not on the screen) says “nooo, you won’t”.
I understand that it was made for a newcomers who are familiar with other CADs. But what about those who has 10 years or more experience with legacy model, where mouse pointer had more priority, where you could move things by pointing on them without spamming Esc or left-clicking all over the place? I personally would be happy without constant fear of something was selected (by me, or by default) when i move or edit a part.
The other example. I click on the footprint to see the corresponding component on the schematic. Then i move it. And then it stays selected, messing up my consequent thought process with completely different part again and again 
I just found one more. I move the part, but not place it and press esc. It was not selected before. It becomes selected. For example! I’m trying to move resistor. I accidentally moving it’s designation text. I see it, i press esc, i point mouse on the resistor better, i press M, the text moves again.
New way the selection behaves disrupts previous experience and habits, that’s the main point. You feel like you’ve got it with a familiar tool, and constantly bumping into the changes.
Can we please have a checkbox in preferences to fallback to the old behavior? Like, if i hover over a part, while the other one is selected, it should prefer the hovered part instead 
Or maybe checkbox to not select newly added parts and deselect single parts after moving/editing/adding regardless of if they were selected or not.
Thanks in advance.
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