Another good example of this is how Alaska adopted ranked choice voting. In 2022, the 2 Republican candidates got more combined votes than the Democrat who ultimately won [1]. Do you think That was the intent of the voters? Almost certainly not but the electorate just didn't understand RCV and enough people only ranked 1.
In 2024 there was only a single Republican on the ballot so it wasn't an issue [2].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Re...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Re...