I have created a feature request in devops for it:
Make it possible to pan up/down left/right while holding the Mouse3 button pressed.
Make it so that the scroll wheel zoom centers on the location where the mouse cursor is over. So. in the Station Logic, if you are zoomed out (everything is very small), you can hover a SmartComponent and scroll the mouse-wheel to zoom in, the view zooms in over that particular item and brings it into view.
This is what you had in mind, right?