I understand that I can delete scene objects by right clicking them and pressing delete. I also understand the concept of don't fix what ain't broke but it sounds to me like a lot of extra meaningless steps. Why won't the delete key work? Since it sounds like the most obvious way to do things, I'm sure the Blender devs had…
That's because just delete deletes the collection and not the content of the collection.. objects can be in multiple collections.. therefor there is the delete hierarchy.. (some times other vocabulary really means something different.. and sometime not 😉) And yes: the good thing in blender is: you can change it very much..…