Maybe you are right, I don't know. I have to admit I am biased: I have a background in CAAD and the concept of a visual bounding box seems still confusing. To me the stroke is an attribute of an object. I am not (yet?) convinced of the implication that an attribute can change the geometry of the object itself. Thus I can see a logical difference between the height and width controls of the rectangle tool and the size controls of the selecting tool.
Maybe you are right, I don't know. I have to admit I am biased: I have a background in CAAD and the concept of a visual bounding box seems still confusing. To me the stroke is an attribute of an object. I am not (yet?) convinced of the implication that an attribute can change the geometry of the object itself. Thus I can see a logical difference between the height and width controls of the rectangle tool and the size controls of the selecting tool.