Okay, so I had been having an issue where my edges, faces, and vertices were not functioning properly. I’ve searched for a solution and am coming up empty handed. While drafting this post, I discovered the issue and am posting still to maybe help someone else avoid the hour plus I just spent trying to figure it out.
Here was my issue
Every time I try to CTRL+SHIFT+ CLICK a subd component, the Selection Menu pop up appears and presents the sub component I am trying to select and the subd object in its entirety. This was making it almost impossible to work with subds.
Interestingly enough, it wasn’t happening on non-subd surfaces. I am able to CTRL+SHIFT+ CLICK into Nurbs and meshes no problem.
Here was the issue. I had grouped a couple of subd’s together.
SOLUTION
I ungrouped the subd’s, the selections behaved as expected. Hope this helps someone else.