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Arrrrh! I now see your meaning.
It is working for me with the Tools, but there are always limitations with a Tool Color-
Note that for a brush color to appear you need to also reduce the Tool saturation of the 'existing' (underlying) image color, and you will only ever be painting a 'tint', and not vivid color.
My example: Brush set to 'Red' with the Saturation slider at -100.
Brushing only on the bud:
More extensive brushing.
And you can still select a color from anywhere on the screen with the dropper, even the Filmstrip of thumbnails, but you will notice that the color selection box will still be 'pointing' to a color that matches the color of the dropper position.
Also worth experimenting is to select the background and adjust the 'Hue' slider and varying Saturation.
Yep, that's right, but I'll give you an example of where I'm going, and where it's not working. Maybe I'm nuts, but this seems like a really useful tool...
This is the original photo, without background color adjustment:
 
This is what I end up with after fiddling with the color picker in the box, which works, but is a matter of trial and error:
 
Here's a screenshot of the color selector I'm talking about, same as yours, but using the 'background' mask autoselect function.
 
It would be great to be able to slide the mouse over onto my image and use the eye dropper to sample the blue in the handle. No guessing, no fiddling, no fooling around. Does that make sense? Am I nuts, or is this not an option?
You can! You would have the Color Picker Box visible in your last screen-clip, then Click and hold down the Left mouse button as you drag the dropper from the color box and onto the blue of the handle. But you will only achieve a feint tint of colour where you brush.
But, really, this is a job better done in Photoshop.
And I am more inclined to Select the Background and use the HUE slider to change the colour. Now you also have Exposure, Saturation, etc, sliders that work better and stronger.
I played around with the posted sample image, and I agree that Hue is going to be a more useful masked adjustment than the older Color adjustment. What worked was:
1. Add background mask.
2. With that mask selected, drag Hue adjustment to blue. The appropriate blue hue seems to be at the right end of the Hue spectrum bar.
3. If the blue isn’t intense enough, increase Saturation, and use any other masked adjustments that help. What seemed to help the most for me was adjusting Temp and lowering Exposure and Highlights a little, and you can also play with the blue Curve. Whatever gets you there is fair game.
Note that I did not use the masked Color adjustment at all.
Unfortunately, Lightroom Classic does not give you an easy way to match a mask color to the blue color in the handle quickly by sampling, so you do have to reach that blue manually. And by eye, because Lightroom Classic doesn’t let you leave a color sampler on the image like Photoshop and Camera Raw do.
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