[Rachel Nash]

Just adding this for public record, @Brian Hwang I’ve been annoyed by the same issue as well. The easiest solution I’ve found is to right click on the parent containing all the objects and select “unfold all.” Press command+a to select all objects, and THEN connect. If you have objects in your scene that you don’t want to connect, it may help to temporarily open a new scene, copy and paste the object hierarchy that you want to connect into there, do your connecting, and then paste the connected object back into the old scene. It’s annoying, but at least saves you from unfolding every single piece by hand.