More shortcuts could be added in the date ranges, after pressing the Calendar icon in the History section. Now there are only: Today, Yesterday, This week, Last week.
Some ranges could be added such as: Last 7 days, Last 30 days… so that it does not exclude the current date.
Compare this with things like the Google Cloud Console for reviewing metrics that has sensible options such as 1 hour, 6 hours, 1 day, 2 days, 4 days, 7 days, 14 days, 30 days. And when you click and drag across the graph it highlights the area and when you release the mouse it zooms to that selection (and offers a “reset” link at the top to get back to the original timeframe.