Objects Pending Approval appear editable in New Experience

Looking for the community's opinion on this before I submit something to the idea exchange...

In Classic, when an object was pending approval the "Edit Custom Forms" link did not appear.

In the New Experience, when an object is pending approval, the edit pencil is available and when you click it all fields open up for editing. Even those fields that can't be edited while an approval is pending. You can make all kinds of changes, but when you click Save, you get the error "An issue with a 'Pending Approval' status cannot be edited. You can modify the issue by changing the status."

If you've made extensive changes, that's a real soul-crusher for the experienced Workfront-er who knows they should have checked the status first. But for the in-experienced or less frequent user, it's confusing and a generally bad experience.

I'm told this is considered to be working as designed because there are certain fields on the object that can be edited while pending approval, so the entire page goes into edit mode, including the custom forms.

I feel like this should be a fix to return functionality, not an enhancement idea... Thoughts...?