Two more things:
1 - The * function is basically broken by this at the moment.
2 - Any "bug fix" had better not change the functionality of tab key - I don't want to start mass mistagging because some weird artist comes along who decides to call themselves something like "eyeb"* or something.
*eyeb then tab is the best way to get eyebrows_visible_through_hair, in case you're wondering, but there are hundreds of things I could have used as an example there - some of which actually exist, eg. loo would come up instead of looking at viewer - or look if you type an extra letter. Thanks to this update, of course, the problem is currently the other way around. Beforehand, of course, there was no problem.
Really, these are all quite basic features of the tab key, and most if not all this would have been brought up had this change actually been discussed beforehand rather than quietly enacted without telling anyone or asking for feedback. This would have then either enabled these problems to be removed before the change was made, or else led to the change being abandoned altogether as more hassle than it is worth, which would have been no bad thing tbh. Removing what is probably the second most used feature of the site (behind clicking on images to open them) is hardly some minor change.