Correct handling of symlinks?

[ravenclaw78]

I link my projects into ~/projects:

~/projects ├── project1 -> ~/xxx/project1 ├── project2 -> ~/yyy/zzz/project2 ├── ...

If I change root to project1, then switch root to one level up, I would expect to be in ~/projects again, but instead I end up in ~/xxx/.

What does "Correct! handling of symlinks" mean?

Is there a way to keep it the way a shell would handle it?