Dynamically updating the option list rests the focus to the first element.

Dynamically updating the options list resets the focus to the first element.
Even though the options are the same (same value), just a new object reference.

In my use case, this happens because the select controls a filter and the results change when selecting options. The filter options have the count (facet filtering) of the results associated with the filter option in their label. So when updating the results we also update the options to update the counts. This means that selecting an option with the keyboard triggers an update of the results, which leads to the recomputation of the options and shortly after the focus is set to the first option in the results list.

This makes keyboard usage very annoying.

This is a v5 bug: https://codesandbox.io/s/react-select-v5-sandbox-forked-s58hcn?file=/example.js

Start with the linked React Select v5 CodeSandbox, especially example.js, and reproduce the focus reset with keyboard selection and newly referenced but equivalent options. Trace the v5 option-list update and focus handling; done means updating option labels or counts preserves the currently focused or selected option instead of moving focus to the first result.