These things are meant to be like that sadly ...
they changed so compression doesn't works and sponge doesn't moves anymore (if you want sponge to move type in console tpt.el.spng.gravity = 1 (moves down))
This is normal, searches with 3 or less letters are ignored (to prevent nearly every save matching anyway)
not a bug it's because he's falling to fast allowing him to travel through 4 pixels