1Password 8.10.7 Mac locks when window closed

I'm so glad I came across this thread. I find it a bit disingenuous that this change in functionality is being characterized as a bug fix to 1Password 8. I've been leaving 1Password running without any active windows and without the menu bar icon since the 1Password 7 days. Like others, I assumed that this was another bug in 1Password 8 and have spent the last couple weeks or so frustrated every time my 1P keyboard shortcuts weren't working.

I'll take the recommended steps and run the menu bar icon hidden, but for folks who don't use Bartender and don't want an unnecessary menu bar tool (my parents, for example), this seems like a fundamental change in functionality that breaks what I thought was 1Password's standard behaviour: always running in the background ready to respond to keyboard shortcuts.