I don’t think this is a bug per se, but I think changing it would be an improvement.
I find myself frustrated when I select something in the element tree, that it’s not actually selected in the editor. What I mean by this is that if you select something in the element tree, you can’t copy/cut/duplicate it.
The same thing is true when you use CMD + click to loop through layers of elements. It’s selected, but… not really.