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How does one add different client contact types (categories) to the same case?

We have 'Allow Multiple Case Clients' enabled on our CiviCRM instance. Before we upgraded to the current version, we were able to add different contact types (individual and organization) to the same CiviCase. But now we cannot. I verified that this is also not possible on the Sandbox version 5.44.alpha1.

I thought the problem might be with the relationships so as an experiment I set all relationship contact types to 'all contacts' instead of 'individual' or 'organization.' But that didn't resolve the issue.

The Case Add Client miniform restricts the search for adding additional new clients based on the client contact type that already exists on the case. See the attached images.

Add new client - one is an example of adding a new client to a case to which an organization is already attached; the other is one where an individual is already attached. The selection only allows for the same contact type to be added.

Is this a purposeful change to disallow mixed client contact types (ind/org) on the same record or is there something else that I need to do to get this to work?

Your help is appreciated.