Strange behavior when resizing with 'Selection Tool'

Hello,
I have a really strange issue when using selection tool to resize object. I have several rectangles stacked and grouped inside a layer. When I select one of them (either in Layer panel or with Group selection tool) and switch to 'Selection Tool (V)' to resize it, this tool behaves diferently at diferent zoom levels. Only at 200% zoom it behaves as it shoul.. With 100-150% zoom result is diferent - like there's a invisible box around selected object and I'm resizing it.. I've tried to explain the issue in attached image.. Anyone knows why is this happening?
Thanks.

- make new document, size 16383x16383px
- create rectangle any width, hight say 200px (or anything less then 320px for 5% zoom)
- select rectangle and show bounding box
- try resizing hight by stretching bounding box
- this is how same selection looks at diferent zoom levels
- same zoom level as befor, hight 100px..

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