Looking back at this, it because obvious why it's not being done that
way. A wireless network with the same name and a different MAC (i.e.
same ESSID(SSID) but different BSSID) is often an indication of a set of
networks we can roam "through". If NM was to automatically add the
BSSID, it would break roaming in all cases.

>From this point, the checkbox, or using some sort of dropdown for the
BSSIDs seen or in range to allow the user to select one and "lock" to
just on AP makes sense; although if you expect to roam between same-name
networks with a different password you'll see it takes more time than if
the password was the same.

Regardless, please file the bug upstream so we can get input from the
developers as how to best present this kind of UI change.

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