Technically yes, that would be nicer. So this is just a product/ux question of whether we want to drop support for the old behaviour. A number of forums have chosen to stick with it, so it would be a breaking change for some people.
I haven’t been able to reproduce this locally. Could you try updating your forum to the latest tests-passed? Earlier this week we merged a very large refactor to the quote/edit buttons, which may have fixed the problem.