Insert Object search bar no longer highlighted by default

This is part of my workflow, so it was something I immediately noticed.

When today I selected something from the explorer and pressed ‘Ctrl + i’ to insert an object to it, I found that the searchbar was no longer highlighted in blue and it didn’t let me type anything right away.

I now have to manually click the searchbar in order to search for the desired instance to insert.
It would’ve been a quality of life improvement if it hadn’t been like that before.

It’s somehow broken or no longer working, which greatly affects Studio Workflow.

current default after opening ‘insert object’
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after clicking on it (it used to be like this by default)
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