Yes, there is a bug already filed about this, but I don’t think there’s much hope that it will be fixed anytime soon. It would involve changing the grader as well and apparently that is non-trivial to do.
Here’s another recent thread about this. And here’s another one.
But also note that they explicitly tell you to use the A1 method in the instructions and they even go so far as to actually write out the code for you.