How to change the "Show in categories" block in the admin panel?

Question

opencart

Good afternoon.
There is a system 2.2.0.0 (rs.2)
In the product editing section, in the admin panel, on the "communications" tab, there is a completely inconvenient system for linking products to categories - by entering the first letters, a category pops up, which we add.
Question: is it possible to do the same way of adding, which is implemented in version 2.3 - by placing checkmarks in the full list of categories?

Answer 1

2.2 stub branch - update best solution.