@Laura McGill​ , this question just came up again here:

https://community.databricks.com/s/question/0D53f00001PonToCAJ/executing-notebooks-run-all-cells-vs-...

I went ahead and created an internal feature request. You can refer to it with DB-I-4250. If you'd like to help prioritize it, please contact your Account Executive or Customer Success Engineer and tell them your company needs DB-I-4250. Being able to attach your company name to feature requests helps the product team prioritize them.

Cheers!