I see this most often with the city and state inputs, where city is a text input and state is a drop-down/select menu.
As a Texan, I will type my city, tab to the State select menu and type "t" followed by another "t" then tab to the next form element.
But what I'm seeing lately is a text input (search field) dressed up like a drop-down menu... So my t , t input results in a text search for a literal "tt" instead of selecting Tennessee then Texas. It's so aggravating.
Now if someone chooses to click the triangle in the drop-down menu, and scroll through the states, the element would work as expected... If you only wanted to interact with the element with you mouse.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.