Plex is selecting forced subtitles over regular subtitles

As I mentioned in my post last August, if I have “Automatically select audio and subtitle tracks” turned on, but leave the “Preferred Audio Language” on “Select Language” (which arguably I shouldn’t be able to do, and is a bug in itself), Plex is choosing the correct subtitle tracks. English audio chooses Forced English Subs, Japanese audio chooses Full Subtitles.

Using your logic, how does Plex know which subtitle track to use since I haven’t defined my “native audio” language yet?

If this expected behavior, why is OttoKerner implying this was something fixed before that has come back?

Why does DaveBinM also imply there is something not working right here.

And none of this addresses the fact Forced Subs are not made to be shown with a foreign audio track.

Plex has been using these account settings as the excuse for why they don’t need to implement either of the feature requests I linked above, but clearly the settings do not cover that functionality. I could leave the audio unset as I mentioned here, but then every episode will default to the first audio track in the file, and I am now forced to change it on every episode (so can’t use autoplay now, without doing it all in advance), unless I use a third-party tool like PASTA.