Blender user interface design

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No, the outliner is a horror show of ux nightmares currently, but I’m very relieved to say that @billrey mentioned recently that selections between the viewport and outliner will be unified in the future:

Blender UI paper cuts

Yes, the added flexibility of the decoupled selection between the viewport and outliner is very marginal compared to the clarity, simplicity, speed and usefulness of making them sync. By default, we should make the Outliner and viewport share the the selection state.