We had a feature request like this already, it was about selecting and deleting/moving multiple objects at once.
If you insist on Ashley's exact words from the response I could take a few minutes and go through my post history but his response was basically saying that: "There will be no changes made for C2, however he will consider improving this part of the editor within C3".
So I guess don't get your hopes up for an update and continue with the current working but annoying method.