Yes, it would because it is a problem. The current behavior with the zoom makes no sense. It’s very frustrating. When it comes time to zoom in I dread it because I know it will zoom in to something random so I’ll have to then press more keys to center the view back to the playhead. It’s unnecessary. All other editors I have used have the playhead as the focal point for the zoom. Shotcut doesn’t. The only way to avoid this problem in Shotcut is to use Center to Playhead mode in the timeline but that changes the whole workflow to something I personally don’t care for.
@shotcut, please reconsider making the zoom use the playhead as the focal point. It has been brought up several times now by users such as in this thread and in this previous thread: