Why are the atlas added to the object selection?

[MathemanFlo]

Why are the atlas added to the object selection?

Is it intentional? I do not understand why this is the case

[todirbg]

This is actually a great idea! Yesterday I was thinking if it was possible to create object groups/collections and this does the job. So if you have multiple objects on 1 UV map and then import more that are on another there is no way to separate those while painting. Well short of creating separate layer for each object. But if you select same atlass for each object you want group you can create layer just for that group. I hope you got what I mean, it is something like UDIMs. There is an issue now. When selecting atlas for the layer it does not actually separate the UVs for the objects on the atlas as selecting single object does. If this gets fixed this will be great.