What's the purpose of not showing hidden elements in the editor if they still there

If I turn on the option of not showing hidden elements why the heck do they still there but transparent. That’s really annoying if you want to work with an element behind it, you just can’t.

There’s really a need for a way to work with layers it’s honestly driving me crazy!

Useless feature right there…

You can access overlapping items on the page from the context menu: