Direct selection + alt + shift bug

Hello. For a long time - I mean, 17 or 18 years, I've been using Illustrator to do many things. But the recent update makes it very irritable on a same level of basic, and I guess it could be a feature, but it looks more like a bug to me.

So the problem goes like this: when you're working with, say, multiple divided recently objects and you need to select some of them with real care - you use the direct Selection tool. So, in order to select them in full, you add the 'alt' key and obviously add one by one, you add 'shift '. And when you add 'shift', all the points disappear suddenly. The paths are always chosen, no problem; but now, it's really difficult to distinguish which ones which is already selected, and which are not.

So, you keep selecting and pressing/UN-pressing the SHIFT key pressed, in order to ensure that you always make the right choice.

I dug in AI prefs, I read everything that Google and Adobe forums combined was for me about this, but I guess that's my only chance to get a real answer.

You are right about what is happening, but this isn't a bug. It's intentional. Supposedly, it is to "clean the Visual interface", but as you say for a long time user, it is very difficult to get used to.

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