Can the Place Selector be changed to the Flat instead of Hierarchical

Adding a Child worked well for me too. Will have to work out the Gender filtering for the Parent selectors.

More importantly, the Ctrl+F seek-as-you-type Find box regained usability. With the Tree-based selector, the search would usually time-out and blank itself before scrolling to the name. And since the filtering features for the Selector are disabled with larger lists, this feature is critical.