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..