Fit selection to screen or zoom to selection

I hate that when I click option and select a layer it zoomes in on the object of the layer when I'm trying to simply select a path from that layer. I always have to zoom out now. Very annoying feature. Can I disable this?

Just had a go at creating a tool for this exact problem as i've become used to the 'Fit To Selection' type tools of 3d software like Blender and Solidworks etc. 

function zoomToSelection() {
    if (!app.documents.length) {
        alert("No document open.");
        return;
    }

    var doc = app.activeDocument;

    if (!doc.selection.length) {
        alert("Please select at least one object.");
        return;
    }

    var selectionBounds = doc.selection[0].visibleBounds; // Get the bounds of the first selected object
    for (var i = 1; i < doc.selection.length; i++) {
        var objBounds = doc.selection[i].visibleBounds;
        selectionBounds = [
            Math.min(selectionBounds[0], objBounds[0]), // Left
            Math.max(selectionBounds[1], objBounds[1]), // Top
            Math.max(selectionBounds[2], objBounds[2]), // Right
            Math.min(selectionBounds[3], objBounds[3])  // Bottom
        ];
    }

    // Add margin (increase bounding box by a percentage)
    var marginFactor = 3; // 200% margin
    var width = selectionBounds[2] - selectionBounds[0];
    var height = selectionBounds[1] - selectionBounds[3];

    var marginWidth = width * marginFactor;
    var marginHeight = height * marginFactor;

    // Center view
    var centerX = (selectionBounds[0] + selectionBounds[2]) / 2;
    var centerY = (selectionBounds[1] + selectionBounds[3]) / 2;

    // Determine zoom level
    var zoomFactor = Math.min(doc.width / marginWidth, doc.height / marginHeight);

    // Apply zoom and center view
    doc.activeView.zoom = zoomFactor;
    doc.activeView.centerPoint = [centerX, centerY];
}

zoomToSelection();

Do you use the spring loaded H key shortcut?  Simply hold down the H key (no modifier) and the screen zoom out to 'fit Image' with a rectangle showing the current zoom size.  You move the rectangle with the mouse, and when you release the H key, it will zoom to the new loaction at the previous zoom ratio.  It's not exactly what you describe, but might be a workaround for you.  I know I love it and use it all the time.

Photoshop recently added the View > Fit Layer(s) on Screen command and its keyboard shortcut, which may cover at least some of your situations. If what is selected (in the Layers panel) are one or more type or shape layers, or pixel layers with transparent areas, then you can already zoom any of those to fit the window. And another shortcut for that is to Option/Alt-click the layer in the Layers panel.

What that command doesn’t cover is fitting a marquee (pixel) selection to the window. Hopefully Stephen Marsh’s script will take care of that.

@rslosiar 

I’ll create a script for you to zoom to the selection. I'll post back later when I have time to look at this.

Just so you know, ChatGPT and Gemini are often wrong - don't rely on them for answers. You have all of the commands under the veiw menu, do none of them work for you?