Possible to select a particle system without seeing those awful bounding boxes?

Title says it all.

I’m wondering if it’s possible to have a particle system selected without the bounding boxes of the particles showing up in the scene view. I can’t imagine any scenario where I would actually find them helpful and they make it very hard to fine tune particles without resorting to the game view.

No. You can either parent the system, and select the parent, or script the invisibility:

Ahh, brilliant.

It works perfectly.