I agree. this would be nice.

Definitely agree. Although, have you guys seen my suggestion? It basically makes it so that instead of not being able to choose easily how many layers you're sculpting, you simply drag select the amount of layers you want to move together and then drag from there. (Think of selecting multiple icons on your desktop and then moving them across the screen.)

Both ideas are worth exploring. There is obviously a difficulty we (desktop players) are experiencing. Hopefully the devs will realize the need to adjust this mechanic and incorporate something like these ideas in future versions.

Hard to argue with these ideas. It is often hard to find the depth you want to grab...

The only solution I've found to reliably control the number of layers being dragged is to zoom in.

They could make it so that you press and hold in place first, where the longer you hold the fewer/more layers it affects, and then let you swipe for a longer distance to make up for the lost time spent holding. It would probably be best if it started at the max number of layers and counted down to one the longer you held it, since players probably want to drag max more often than just one. This approach would work with mouse on PC and finger on mobile.

Oh yea, my gripe here is the progression of 1x 3x 5x 8x, why not 1x 3x 6x 9x ?? This way you can keep working with the same layers you have established earlier.