How do I select nodes inside a shape without selecting the shape?

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Apologies if this has been asked/answered before - i could not find anything after a brief search. Other tools have keybindings like shift+drag or option+drag to enable starting a drag selection from inside a shape. I want to be able to select these nodes in order to clean up this shape:

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As far as I can tell there is not a way to do this in Figma. I always end up grabbing and moving the shape.

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I think this is a bug: https://www.figma.com/file/Q0bjQfRZvwxxtmEKzEzGzM/selection-bug?type=design&node-id=0%3A1&mode=design&t=rOapWPDEZCcpMbFv-1

Left shape does not allow box selections that start from inside, right shape does allow them.

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I was curious so I dug into this a little more. The only difference I can see in these two shapes is that the nonworking one includes this under vectorData property:

regions: [
  {
    styleID: 0,
    windingRule: "NONZERO",
    loops: [
      {
        segments: [ 6, 8, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 ]
      }
    ]
  }
]