Really struggling with selection

[andyvandalsem]

This post from another thread sums it up well:

@ckohl_art

These Blender design choices are making the life of an add-on dev unnecessarily complicated.

• bmesh doesn’t have a list of which components are selected.
• bmesh doesn’t have foreach methods to quickly build such a list.
• object.data.vertices has both, but it doesn’t update when the selection changes in Edit mode.
• bmesh.select_history has a list but doesn’t include box/lasso/circle/other selected vertices.

The end result is that add-on devs have to…

• loop over the entire bmesh with a list comprehension (slow on dense meshes)
• or do hacks like mode switching or ob.update_from_editmode() to update the object.data (extremely expensive for dense meshes which defeats the purpose of wanting to use foreach with numpy because the slow list comprehension will be faster)
• or re-implement and replace Blender functions and tools in their own python scripts and manually handle all tracking themselves (if you’re crazy and/or a masochist).

Is this no longer the case?