As far as reporting a bug goes, you can go to inform7.com/mantis, register an account, and fill out a bug form. But there’s no need in this case, because it’s already reported.
Last time this came up a solution involved an extension called Objects Matching Snippets. But that might not work for your use case. The original poster there said it worked and they understood how it worked, which puts them several steps ahead of me, because I don’t understand how that worked or how a working copy of the extension wound up on my computer when it hadn’t been available anywhere else. But you might want to take a look!