payload.find return no results when collection use 'localized: true' option

I have just notice that when i create a string field 'slug' like this:

  fields: [
    {
      name: 'slug',
      type: 'text',
      unique: true,
      localized: true,
      index: true,
      admin: {
          readOnly: true,
          position: 'sidebar',
      },
      hooks: {
          beforeValidate: [
              ({ req: { payload }, data }) => {
                  if (payload) {
                      return slugify(data.name, {lower: true})
                  }
              },
          ],
      },
    },
    ...

with the localized:true option,

and execute a find query:

      let scrapped_brands = await payload.find({
        collection: "brands",
        where: {slug: { equals: 'slug1'}},
      });

the query returns no results even when there are actually results in the database.

after some investigation i have noticed that the buildQuery function doesnt build the query correctly.

on document 'node_modules/payload/dist/mongoose/buildQuery.js'

the query that was created is:

when removing the

option and build again, then i gets the documents as expected and the buildQuery shows a correct query like this:

not sure if this is a bug, but i wasted few hours on this one 😦