Saving file functionality is broken

When saving a new file the filechooser opens in directory /home/Documents. I click on a subdirectory of the directory I am currently in /home/Documents/art. I name the file "writing.md". I then realize that I'm in the wrong directory and need to save it in the current parent directory (/home/Documents). So I click on the button in the path (1). Unfortunately, the directory I was just in is still selected. If I press save, instead of the file "writing.md" being saved in the directory I'm currently in the file chooser takes me to the subdirectory (again). I move back into the parent directory -> I try to click on an "empty" space so I can select this directory as the one to save in. It doesn't work.

So I have to either (a) selected a different file in this directory, then go back and rename the file to "writing.md" in the textbook or (b) I have to go up one more parent directory (/home), which has Documents selected in the listbox, press save, and then finally it takes me into the /home/Documents folder without having anything selected, finally letting me save the file.

This is incredibly broken behavior.