I had a tiny pad with a huge solder mask expansion. This solder mask expansion visually takes up the whole board, so I hide the solder mask layer. However, as far as selection is concerned, that soldier mask is still there, because if I click in empty space, the pad becomes selected. Because the bounding box is the size of the object, regardless of what's hidden.

My desired behavior is that the selection box – the hit target – of an object should correspond to visible aspects of the object.