Yeah. Search behavior changed for me today, too.

Hi tom.dalrymple,
This is a new feature and we've discussed it more in this topic. (I see you found your way there already, but just sharing for others.)

In your specific case I've added this to our list to investigate so it doesn't adjust your phrase in this way. Thanks for sharing that.

Let us know if we can ever help with anything else!

And to workaround this you can either use search operators themselves or more explicit phrases:

name:"check for rga items on tickets"
tasks named check for rga items on tickets

I hope this helps a bit too!

Thanks!