Floating window disappears when clicking on a docked windows macos help

[alicedelish]

Moved to macos big sur from Win10 and can't use floating windows as a reference above a docked window, when I click on a docked window's area floating window just disappears. It is super annoying. Not sure if it is PS version issue or Macos big sur+PS version issue.  What to do?

[Jeff Arola]

It's a macOS issue not specific to any macOS version.

Been discussed here at length:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/how-do-i-keep-a-floating-window-on-top-of-a-tabbed-document...

[alicedelish]

7 years have past and no progress on the issue?

any extensions that can hold an image as a reference? Panels seem to stay afloat