I got an additional repsonse from Support;
Sorry, after looking into it a bit more I realize that I got confused for a while - and you are of course correct. Whenever a program change is received the device will cue the corresponding pattern. The change will happen based on the state of the receiving device, just as if the pattern was cued locally. If the pattern setup is equal between two devices the behavior should be identical. The behavior you describe is a bug and I will immediately talk to our developers about it. Thanks again for reporting!