Adding a star rating to a photo within a stack causes the application to lose context on it's location within the album and return to the first photo in a given album

I have albums with between 1k and 3k photos in them. I’m using the Assisted Culling feature to create stacks based on time (in my case ½ second), and then using the right/left arrow keys to cycle through the stacks. Typically this creates around 400 stacks (and a hundred or so singles, bit I don’t know that’s relevant). When I find a stack that has a photo I like, I either press the 1 key to rate it as one star, or click the star on the UI to add it.

In most cases, this works as expected; it stars the first photo in the stack and then the next time I hit the right-arrow key it will move to the next photo or stack. In some cases however, it effectively resets the view and moves all the way back to the first photo in the album. Note that this does NOT require pressing an arrow key; just the act of setting the rating changes the photo displayed.

To return to the place in the album that I previously was, I’m currently having to filter for all photos >= 1 star, select the last photo, clear the filter and then restack the photos.

I can’t seem to replicate this behavior if the photos aren’t stacked when I rate them.

Currently running lightroom 9.5.1 on a Windows 11 Pro x64 machine.