Is Repair Dispensary's pickups getting wasted intentional or a bug?

[Traumtulpe]

When using Dispensary, all pickups will remain on the ground unless you can use them, in other words unless they actually restore any lost ammo or health/energy.

Except Repair Dispensary's companion pickups. They always immediately get wasted, no matter the state of your companion. Due to this you cannot stack up on repair drops to get your sentinel back when it's down. Also the repair drop is always dropped last, meaning even if you immediately cast it when your sentinel goes down, about half of the effect is wasted (assuming double drops and Primed Regen).

This just seems terrible...