Please, please can focus issues be fixed?

I run into various keyboard- and focus-related issues frequently.  These have been documented elsewhere, but one in particular continues to irritate.  I'll press Cmd+Shift+S to run a search, and then check the search pane's "Send searches here" checkbox.  After searching, clicking on results, etc. I want to do another search.  So I press Cmd+Shift+S again and nothing happens. What should happen is that the current search pane should be focused and the search-text field should receive input focus and have the current text selected so that typing a new search overwrites the current search text.

This is a truly simple usability issue that could be fixed (should Logos be willing) really easily.  And yet these issues continue to languish, now buried under the mountain of bugs and issues created by the latest PBB and other additions.

Please, please will Logos focus on attending to simple (basic) usability issues instead of simply piling on new features.  I'm not against new features, but the backlog of longstanding bugs is becoming telling.