3818485 - Why was my request auto-approved at the Cost Object Approval step if the Expired Time Action is set to "Send back to the employee"?

In the Cost Object Approval step of a workflow, the only supported action when the approval time expires is to skip to the next step, regardless of the action defined in the workflow general settings. However, it's important to note that if another option is set as Expired Time Action at the general settings level, that action will occur after the request has reached its expiration limit for all steps except for the Cost Object Approval step. This behavior is intentionally designed by the system.

I'm wondering why my request, which has an expired approval, is being automatically approved at the Cost Object Approval step, even though I have set the Expired Time Action to "Send back to the employee". , KBA , CON-EXP-ADM-WFL-WL , Workflow , Problem