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Does turning off the "Automatically balance brackets in Objective-C" preference not work? I like the feature, so I've never tried turning it off, but it sounds like it'd solve your problem.

You can also change the assistant editor to manual control: I frequently alternate between automatic, UI, and manual control of the right pane. There are some great keyboard controls to make it easier.

I don't use (need?) 'watch' in my debugging, but I thought the UI exposed a command for doing so (is that what you mean by integrated?). I think right clicking a value/variable has 'watch'. And I'm sure that LLDB has commands for it.