Confusing Spaces behavior

Say I have two Safari windows open in different spaces, and I have a different application in front, either on the same space as one Safari window, or in a third space. When I cmd-tab back to Safari, what's the logic behind which Safari window it jumps back to?
Damned if I can figure it out. It's really frustrating.

As the original poster mentioned, moving to a specific space is not always the solution; often you (well, not you, as you stated, but others) want to go directly to an application. Avoiding Command-tab isn't the solution: Apple's fixing it to behave correctly is the solution. Even if you keep all your applications separate (which I can't, there aren't enough spaces for that), there are several that work better when assigned to Every Space, so you have some forced sharing anyway. The Finder, for instance, by default is in every space and Command-Tabbing to that becomes quite an issue in regard to which windows will show up based upon which space you were in when you opened them and which space you're in now - and you don't have the option of other keyboard switching methods when something's in Every Space.
There can be up to 16 Spaces. Are you really running more than 16 applications at one time? If so, run Activity Monitor and see how much CPU you are using in those applications. My guess would be that your computer is running slower than it would if you had fewer applications open at one time
The Finder is not in every Space by default. The Desktop is on every Space by default. You can assign the Finder to be in every Space, but you need to set that up in Spaces. And the Finder is not a regular application so you cannot select it as you normally would with other applications. The Finder.app is in Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices. I like having the Finder in every Space so I can open files from the Finder windows more easily, regardless of which Space I’m in.
Yes, it's sad we have to adapt to the software when it should be the other way around!
We always need to adapt to how applications are made. For example, you may want to have the menus on the side rather than on the top, but you cannot change it easily.
But Apple didn't think it out well enough even for you - have you noticed how, if you switch back to a space with multiple windows open, the one you left on top is not always on top? This drives me crazy in Mail - I'm composing a message, leave to check something in a Word document, say, or a PDF that I'm talking about - and going back to Mail puts the Viewer window on top, and my half-done msg window beneath it. I just used Ctrl-1 to leave this space I'm typing in (for Safari), and Ctrl-2 to come right back - and this message window was obscured by a Finder window - because the Finder lives in Space 2 also, so I wound up in the Finder!
I agree that sometimes when switching Spaces it will lose focus from the window you wanted to another window. This happens to me most often when switching to Safari. But enough people have informed Apple of the problem that it should be fixed in the next version update. It is annoying, but doesn’t drive me crazy. Perhaps because I was already crazy.

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