Why does a wildcard require at least 1 character?

[chase-lewis-akasa]

i have a title with 'ehr image' in it. If i search '+ehr +imag*' i will get the item returned as expected. However, if I search '+ehr +image*' i will get no results which seems to be exactly the opposite of what the documentation and most the comments i've read in Github threads says should happen. Am I missing something?

Edit: More testing it seems to be just certain words are fundamentally borked. "+image*" fails but something like "+shepard*" or "+bean*" like in the example works fine ... another word I found that seems to fail is "notes".

It's super confusing ...