I found a bug report already filed and added my comment about this issue. Mine was just a "me too, it's still happening" comment; it doesn't look like it's being actively worked on. The reason could be that the devs are highly involved on working on Grub 1.99 now. Perhaps it will be looked at in that version.
I'm having problems connecting to Launchpad now to provide the link but I was able to find the bug report a few days ago.