I think it may just be a wording issue - I had to read through a couple times to be sure of it.
Yes, if you click and release, the play head will jump to where your cursor is.
However, as MWo says, if you click and hold the play head will jump to your cursor position but will also "attach" it so you scrub the timeline at the same time. So the click brings it away from the other marker but the hold will then let you scrub back to where you want to review.
Like MWo says, make an update suggestion (in the wish list thread) and see what sort of traction it can get and they might implement something on a future release. Personally, I think some keystrokes similar to Premiere might be handy in this situation (i.e. spacebar to play the timeline although this is already a shortcut for the UI, but something like the J/K/L keys in Premiere that let you play forward and backward).