Quick find and the search box at the top are saving the restrictions from advanced find when doing new searches. i.e. after using the advanced find to find Larry Lesson in GA, when I try to find Ed Example in quick find or the search box next, it will will only return constituents in Georgia until you manually clear out the state in advanced find. It would save time if it would ignore any restrictions or clear that out if you're not using advanced find to search.
You are correct. This is planned to be fixed in our next release, 7.20. Thanks for your patience.