Canvas in Scene View at huge scales. Why?

Is there any reason that a Canvas is so huge? Why is it (still) like this?

It's not user-friendly at all - it's hard to manage, confusing, and awkward to navigate around at x1000 (or whatever) the scale of the world. It's like having a giant, intrusive billboard everywhere.

Is there any way to make it behave, dare I say - 'normally'? By that I mean, render it in the scene view at a scale appropriate to the scale of every other object in the scene view - the world etc.

 

Can anyone shed light on this?

 

I think it's based off 1 unit = 1 pixel (which is an awful thing and totally needless nowadays). You should be able to change it somewhere. Unity's UI wore me down a long time ago with performance and wierd API and weird transforms, so I simply roll my own, and it's not that hard, not really harder than moving a bunch of aliens.

 

Is moving a bunch of aliens easier or harder than herding cats?

 

Thanks for the reply hippocoder, although it's really depressing to find yet another case of 'Unity's core features aren't up to the job, so write your own' =|