When either of the move, scale, or rotate tools is active, selected objects can be clicked to drag them around freely.
Most of the time, this feature is not desired. It has conditioned me to select parts very carefully, which reduces productivity and is generally a grating experience.
Additionally, the area that begins a handle drag eclipses the area that begins a free drag extremely often. I find myself positioning the camera to prevent the handle I want to drag from overlapping in order to avoid accidentally free dragging instead. This conflict in UI is, once again, very irritating to deal with.
I propose to add a setting that disables free dragging for tools with handles (move, scale, and rotate). The select tool still allows free dragging regardless of this setting. It has no handles, so there are no conflicts, and there are cases where free dragging is useful, so it’s good to still have it readily available somewhere.