Nah. That's just Itch being Itch.
There is more places where the texts and labels are technically incorrect or misleading.
Look at the select a tag box. That's a write in box. You can select a tag. But you can freestyle write in a tag.
Or worse, the link you see on all browse pages. "View all tags". Nope. That's not all tags.
On the plus side, the name matching was improved when the search was changed. It matches more typos and different spelling. Search was much more literal before.