Hello ! Always happy to help :)

About typing straight away : I would argue that this is only partially true, as any key that is already set as a tool shortcut (for instance having J set to trigger "join") causes the text tool to cancel out and exit. So there might be a need for an exception here (ignoring shortcut inputs while in the text creation tool). The temporary workaround being, of course, to get into the habit of always starting a text entry with something not already assigned as a tool shortcut :D

Hi pior, the other way you can do it is to press the Tab key which will put focus in that field and select all text without needing to use the mouse to do it. You can use this method if you have a bunch of shortcut keys set up.

- Michael

Just type your text before the default one then Press the Delete keys at the end of the new text until the default text will be erased...
Not a big deal! :)

Hello FP,
Sure enough that's another way to work around the issue, but any UX issue is worth reporting IMHO, as I believe it can only make the software better in the long run.