The behavior Marc_V is wants has been the ONLY behavior ever since “paste into active layer” has been available. It was an effective welcome improvement that is now rendered useless and we have to go back to Krita 4 practice of constantly baking layers down - which is itself problematic because in animation you have to be careful to set blank keyframes all around the frame you pasted into.
In every use case I have ever encountered to paste in active layer, the entire point is to be able to be confident of a pixel perfect move of some material from one layer to another or to other animation frames in the same layer. Not only is an additional step to reposition a pita, but it’s also likely you will NOT move it to exactly the same location. In animation this means unintended visual chatter.