[curt.clifton]

Originally Posted by rmathes

might be missing the core point here (if so, my apologies), but what I'd like to see is persistence.

If I expand some things and collapse others, if I navigate to a different view and return to the original one, I'd like my selections to be intact and not have to re-make them.

That's exactly what Tim meant when he said "it should respect your expansion preferences and if it isn't, please log a bug via Help > Send Feedback."