I’ve come across something like this before. There it was an issue in not displaying multiple ratings with different IDs, but it likely stems from the same issue: the rating field edit is put in the right-click menu rather than the bottom pane, and removing it from the latter had unexpected consequences. You can install the View Script Variables plugin and double-check yourself if you want, but I don’t remember seeing any rating variable on that list.
This does definitely seem like a bug, and if none of us submitted it before, then definitely go ahead. The one thing is that there isn’t much of a dev team per se, but mostly just volunteers who fix whatever catches their eye or their workflow. Submitting the report will certainly give it much more of a chance than otherwise, but it’s no promise on its own. Know any Python yourself? 