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When you are placing an entity (or holding any item) you see a number that indicates the amount of that item you have in the stack, wouldnt it be better if it showed the number of items of that type you have in your imventory? since when a stack is finished the game puts on ypur hand other stack, it makes more sense to know what you have in your whole inventory, rather than just the stack, and it seems quite stupid with items that only stack up to 1 (That I dont think there are in the vanilla game)

Cars are single stacked.

As for the stack size, using the whole of your inventory, rather than individual stacks, would make it pointless to ctrl-click for inserting a stack things to many different entities (i.e. coal/wood into furnaces) and just as useless for ctrl-r-clicking to hand out only moderate amounts.
If you want to move the whole or half of your entire inventory, just ctrl-click/r-click on the items to be moved while the entity's window is open.

+1 when total number is for example in brackets.

And OT for the half size stacks: I don't like the logic of it. But that's an own post..