Extendscript: PathItem.length-1 don't select last Path if there's a Symmetry Path at the end

​@Crystal33276269zcyj - I had to do this, excluding by name, it’s messy, but appears to work:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var paths = doc.pathItems;

if (paths.length === 0) {
    alert("No paths in this document.");
} else {
    var lastIndex = paths.length - 1;
    var lastPath = paths[lastIndex];

    // Exclusion regex: ignore symmetry paths and the Work Path
    var exclude = /(symmetry|work path)/i;

    // Check last path
    if (exclude.test(lastPath.name)) {
        var found = false;

        // Look backwards for the previous non-excluded path
        for (var i = lastIndex - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            var p = paths[i];
            if (!exclude.test(p.name)) {
                p.select();
                found = true;
                break;
            }
        }

        if (!found) {
            alert("No previous non-symmetry, non-work paths found.");
        }
    } else {
        // Last path is valid — select it
        lastPath.select();
    }
}

It’s working correctly, selecting the last pathItem in the array, regardless what kind of path. I wonder if it has something to do with:

.pathItems.kind == "PathKind.NORMALPATH"; // "PathKind.CLIPPINGPATH" etc.

I don’t know if the DOM even supports symmetry paths to isolate them by their specific kind...

Current workaround within what my script does: have script delete all previous paths

Testing some more, it seems like if theres a symmetry path before the new one, its symmetry path state is not fully gone, and that affects how the path is selected?
when I edit the any earlier symmetry path points (like deleting a point), things then works as per normal