Old sketch objects change dimension to fit newest object relations

This characteristic of SW seems to have changed at some point over the last couple of years, I don't remember it being this way, so I'm guessing there may be a setting to change it back...

Issue: I create, say, a rectangle, set the dimensions of the sides and then go to create a circle that I want to be tangent to the sides of a corner. When setting the tangent relations, SW changes the dimensions of the rectangle (that I drew first) to make the circle tangent to the edge, and not the circle dimension. Does it not make sense that a newly-created sketch object would want to have it's dimensions changed to fit whatever is there presently and not the other way around?  This is a really basic thing, but it's fantastically annoying. Possibly just to me!

YES, I know I could smart dimension/set relations for the first object(s) to fully define before moving on, but that's another few clicks, of which we're all making a few thousand daily. In the name of speed, is there a setting that causes 'newer' sketch objects to change dimension in preference to 'older'?

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