Authentication to Production Branch Issue

Maybe hard to reproduce and might have been a "me" thing, but when I went to authorize the production org in the pipeline it Popped up a modal to login, and when I logged in on the modal it logged me into prod in that screen, but logged me out of prod on the main screen. When I went back into the environment it said it did not authenticate and I had to try again, leave the modal open and then it worked for some reason (but still logged me out on the main screen).

Also, not a bug, but a feature request. - Make pipeline building easier - I can't be the only person to use SSO in production but have to login to sandboxes with whatever my password was in production whenever it was that I had set it. Ideally, setting up a pipeline would allow you to configure environments leveraging connected apps or some other feature where the individual user who is creating the pipeline doesn't have to login to every environment in order to configure it. Long term, I would love to see a simpler way to access sandboxes in general for myself and for my users who want to test or see prototypes in various environments without having to remember which environment something was in.