Cart Transform updateOperation is moving line items to bottom of cart

[PhilipBeauford]

I have a related issue regarding the updateOperation.
When I update a price down to zero the line item is then moved to the bottom of the list of cart items, instead of staying in the order it was added to the cart.

My client has a current legacy bundle builder that uses parent products with hidden price fields, and for now the bundle parent product price needs to be hidden as a work-around while we update the bundle logic for extensibility. I'm able to change price to 0 and 'hide' the price field by removing the 'free' label but the parent products are being pushed to the bottom of the item list, negating the use case.

Please advise if the line items can be adjusted to not be relocated to bottom of list after price updates or when updated to $0.