I have used and now use the /select feature for purposes such as targeting an NPC not visible line of sight and/or in a cluster of NPC's as seen on a mappack map.
Up until a year or so ago, I also used /select to target enraged wisps to speed up looting them for Wisp Vitality Tech Components. For the past year or so this procedure no longer consistently targets the nearest enraged wisp, and often targets one as far away as 100-150 meters, including cases where at least 2 enraged wisps are closer.
If anyone cares to see this phenomenon in real time, visit the wisp/oastic/treant field just west of the Eastern Outpost on the south side of the road. In this area are spawned "clusters" of Shining Wisps: an Enraged, an Enriched, and one or two each of regular sized and small ones in each cluster. Set up a hotkey with text command "/select enraged shining" (without the quote marks) and using the Hotkey to target the enraged wisps and move about the field to see that the closest one is not often the targeted one.
Is it possible that we can again have the /select always target the closest item as had been the case for many years?
Knossos