No, I’ve been affected by this bug on Windows for a very long time, this is a known bug for years: Remove Exclude Parameter If Running Compare via GUI Commandline - Support - Duplicati
Every time I was doing a COMPARE between 2 backup versions, I manually removed all EXCLUDE options from the list.
I’m surprised to find out that this issue doesn’t occur anymore in the latest beta, COMPARE operations work fine when I leave the EXCLUDE options in the list.