Illustrator not auto selecting artwork

I used illustrator literally every day. I have been using version 27.9.5 for years because after that when I update the artwork doesn’t auto select when loaded. I send a ton of files at a time, sometimes 150-200. So when I have to select every single one my job becomes a lot harder. Today I figured they would fix this issue by now or maybe there’s some setting I have to change to have the artwork be selected automatically? I updated to the newest version and this is still an issue for me.