Fair assessment, it would make sense for the layers within a collapsed group to be selected automatically. I just wanted to make the point that wasn't technically the case. When you select a group only (which is the same as selecting a collapsed group) it is like selecting multiple layers that have been flattened. In a way, you can think of a group as a Smart Object, the internal information is editable, but you have to go internal to edit it. The objects in a group share certain attributes, like position and scale, so just selecting the group only will allow you to edit these shared attributes. However, internal objects must be selected to change attributes not shared with the group (that is, the group itself doesn't have a text color, even if all layers in the group are text layers).
I'm not trying to justify he current behavior, just explaining how it works behind the scenes and why we see this behavior.
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