Unbalanced Columns inconsistency

The Align to baseline Grid and Balance Columns icons are similar, but not the same. Here’s an illustration of @jmlevy ’s post.

The Control panel is contextual to the current tool. If a selection tool is active and a text frame is selected:

If some text is selected and the Text tool is active:

The icon in the paragraph panel is not relative to columns but it is relative to the baseline grid alignment. Balanced column is a text frame attribute, not a paragraph attribute.