Well, I’d like to have it too, but I admit I’m not optimistic (they didn’t chime in, did they?).
I think the team likes to do things “innovatively.” For example, the ability to select all notes in a chord by clicking on its stem, or select all the beamed notes by its beam, while the “ordinary” way is by using marquee selection. Or having arbitrary invisible boundaries around staves (personally, I think it would be universally more comprehensible if there’s no boundary at all, if we can see the notes, surely we won’t have difficulty to see/click on its staves).
However, this consequently will make it more problematic if the note you want to select is touching a flag. (My original post has a separated slur, how would you expect it’d behave on a note touched by a flag?)
As seen in my .gif images, I believe clicking on its center won’t do it, it has to be somewhere off center.
The underlying catch maybe related to the internal selection area around the actual mouse tip. But I propose that they’ll make a very special consideration whenever a user clicks directly on top of a notehead. I’m very sure they can programmatically detect it.
Recently there’s a related post in Dorico’s FB group, and in my interaction with John Barron he made a suggestion of trying to bump this thread, on the off chance that the team might has been overly occupied (therefore wasn’t able to comment) at the time.
I would love to see this improved in a future update. As a long-time Dorico user, this has always been a bit of an annoyance. I do not have trouble with precision selection in any other software, but in Dorico, it seems when I’m trying to select just one note from a chord, or a note and not some nearby item, the resulting selection seems almost arbitrary.
I was just finishing up a large project in Finale and again noticed how amazingly exact Finale is in regard to selection at any zoom level. The design seems aimed to help those who do very exact positioning of elements with the mouse. The Dorico approach may be fundamentally different and “looser” since the focus is away from mouse adjustment.
Control over the mouse selection area would be very helpful for those of use who continue to use the mouse for fine adjustments.