Password protected posts/pages

Not sure if this is intentional or not, but it surprised me: I have this on a website to protect the backend. Frontend blocking is off, backend blocking is on. However, if you password protect a post (the vanilla WordPress way), and access that on the frontend this will also be covered. Pretty sure it’s due to where it hooks in.

I’d rather have it not apply on password protected posts if frontend is toggled off, but that’s more a suggestion rather than a bug report.