What's the reason for having the active selection in the outliner reversed from the viewport?

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To clarify: either the first or the last selected object in a multi-selection is the active object.

I think they switched it around 2.8 or so. Anyone know what the reason is cause it’s very annoying to switch my mental model for selecting depending on where I do it.

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Are you referring to the outliner’s range selection (shift+click by default) not making the last item active ?

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Yes that’s the one

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For what it’s worth, it also annoys me to no end. It changed during 2.8, yes… as far as I can recall.

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