I also have this issue as in this thread and the one linked below.
Development-wise, wouldn’t it be easy to just enable in the category taxonomy to have certain categories “pre-selected” in the filter on page load? Like if I am browsing “Women” page, and I choose “Brands: Adidas” from the filter, I wouldn’t have to separately “re-choose” Women FROM the filter as within this filter (of my dreams) it would be already pre-selected for me. (One could untick it, though, if wants to browse men as well – for me that would make way more sense.)
This would mean that you would have to use separate filters for separate category pages, however, but that’s already what I am doing anyway (I don’t even want to show all men’s categories and subcategories under the page “Women”.. but still when applying a filter it loads men’s products in to women’s view, where the user is not expecting to see it. As for now, I have to rely on the visitor figuring out that they have to re-select the preferred category in the filter and that’s kinda stupid)
PS @themifyme I find it kinda funny that you forward here from another (“closed”) thread for further discussion, but claim not to understand what @wheeleran ‘s issue is here ??
