It’s very annoying and bad UI design to have the folders constantly open if you so much as look at an asset. I regularly have to do a ‘collapse all’ just so I can see what’s going on in my outliner.
Mentioned here, has lots of support and, as far as I can see has been ignored:
People have been asking for this for 10 years now, its crazy that such an overlooked feature is still missing
I agree, this is pointless. I think auto-expand should be banned from the universe. Unless it’s optional, it’s pure torture; you’d have to be someone who’s never dealt with such things to not see that..
Just adding my voice to this, please add the option to disable auto expand.
Edit: should’ve googled harder. In one of the 5.x+ versions they added an Outliner option to disable “Always frame selection”, as well as “Collapse hierarchy on viewport selection” - some combination of these should do the trick