I'm not sure this is the old behaviour, but it feels wrong another selection is created after you press delete. It feels like (if you delete 1 files in a large directory) nothing has been done or when you press delete twice you delete stuff you probably want to keep.
IMHO this is alright. I often navigate with the keyboard only and if I delete something I don't want the keyboard cursor to jump back to the beginning as soon as I try to navigate with the arrow keys again. Pressing delete twice can be dangerous but that's why we have the trash. ;) Actually, pressing delete twice results in "file does not exist" errors at the moment, so this is something that definitely needs to be fixed.