Photos app: Cannot drag shared album photos to Favorites after macOS 27 update

Prior to MacOS 27 I was able to drag a shared album photo into "favorites". Behind the scenes the photo was downloaded to my library and marked as a favorite. Since upgrading to 27 I have to do a two step process: first add the photo to my library then mark it as favorite. Gemini seems to say Apple intentionally did this. Anyone else experience this and is it an Apple design or a new restriction put in by Apple?