Hi all! Thank you for resurfacing & sharing more feedback.
Just in the nick of time! The issue of the code pop out window closing when clicking outside should be solved in this afternoon's (pacific time) Cloud release (3.26) 
Please let me know if you still see any quirks after that
The jump to zero issue is something we're investigating, but it's a bit more technically challenging to solve, unfortunately 
I'll flag your feedback to our team.
Stewart 
I can't send you a jar of peanut butter, but happy to chat about your crud app in office hours or in a new topic