Personally I think that's just fine. Yes, it's not default vkb behavior exactly, but it lets you edit what's in the VKB text box with the hkb if you really want to. You can still always click out of it, but this way if you type a massive paragraph of text, but have Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down mapped to the hardware keyboard, it can be a bit easier to quickly scroll to the right spot and change one or two characters.

*Shrug* I can see how it can annoy some people though - personally I don't mind either one, but making that a configurable-in-settings-option might be nice too.

Also, to everyone for whom your vkb OPENS when the hkb is open, that's very likely a hardware problem (it not detecting the keyboard is open/closed). Now, if it doesn't open with hkb open, but does STAY open when hkb is opened, then that's how this keyboard has always worked.