Can you stop Notes from grabbing a whole line whenever you drag in a list?

Whenever I want to select some text in a list Notes defaults to picking up the whole line and dragging it, rather than selecting the range I'm wanting like every other word processor. Is there a way to turn this functionality off, it's really messing with my muscle memory, and reduces the functionality of the program. The only way it seems you can select from within a line in a list is to place the cursor at one end and use shift-arrow to select the letters one by one - this is obviously needlessly time consuming.

I literally get no benefit from the functionality of grabbing the whole line, it is only ever an impediment and trips me up every time.