There are other areas where shortcuts do not affect what is selected or active. For example in edit mesh mode "select linked" - Shortcut "L".
If you hover over a mesh island and press "L" the island is selected while the active or selected part of the mesh is not selected.
IMO having hover shortcuts like these is very useful and not inconsistent with the UI.

The same is true in compositor and shading editor for changing the color in an rgb node, when moving color stops in color ramp nodes and changing curves in RGB curves and Vector curve nodes.
I think it is pretty much every value that is not a just a number.

Thank you so much for this. Dragging borders on a 4K monitor was absurd.

When choosing "edge ring select" from the search menu there seems to be different bug (or limitation) as well.
It will allways select the ring closest to the mouse. This is not useful, though when selecting from a menu.

Edge ring select is not the same, though. Edge ring select is the operator that is triggered when you Ctrl Alt Right Mouse button (on right click select).

Will the grab and rotate hotkeys be supported as well? For people not using gizmos I think it would be inconvenient to use gizmos when transforming the cursor.

Awesome. Thank you! :D