Once again, because you wanted ‘_sku’ sorting, with partial matches within the text, and the partial matches with the alphabetically preceeding ‘_sku’-s preceed that product.
It’s simply not possible to have the target product as first, when the primary sorting is set by ‘_sku’ , when the partial match ‘_sku’ are alphabetically preceed the target product – the target is simply pushed to the back, beyond the limit, because of the primary sorting by ‘_sku’.
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