Hah. I think you might’ve just convinced me – I’ll start giving it a shot tonight.
Would this resolve a specific issue I was having when doing the suzanne weight painting lesson; where I would often accidentally select the widgets and instead of painting in some weights on her ear, I’d move the bone across the screen and give Suzanne an unfortunately floppy ear?
I assume this is what you mean in the article about left click (action), right click (select). Where right click could select the ear bone, and left click would add the weight paint!