Originally Posted by Banjomir
Has Larian actually acknowledged that this is an unintentional bug, and not a "feature"?

Yes, according to the info from Larian support posted by VerSo just above at https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=878929#Post878929.

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