Having Active Component Visibility enabled in Preferences is super helpful for insuring proper the component is activated -- only the active component is not ghosted, and therefore naturally new features generated from what one is working on will be sent into proper component folder in the Browser tree. However, often one would like to see all or multiple components together/not ghosted at once, to get a sense for things. The only efficient way to do this now is to activate the root component. But I've found this often leads to forgetting to then activate a lower component again, which can cause all kinds of problems of features going into wrong root component and then once later realizing this requiring trying to restructure/move them into proper components, which causes considerable trouble for such things as Paste New later on.
Sometimes you can visibility tell that root component is activated by noticing nothing is ghosted. But if more zoomed in to an area, often no other component is even in sight to be ghosted or not.
Ideally, it would not be possible to create new features while this temporary preview mode is active, such that again don't forget to turn it off and potentially result in features going into wrong components due to the ghosting being disabled. I also don't know where exactly such a preview mode would be located, perhaps under the Inspect tab. But I do know it would be super helpful!
Thanks,
Jesse