For what it's worth, this behavior is useful.  You can have the changes in your
working directory, realize they need to be applied to a patch that's not at the
top of your queue, pop your way down to the patch, refresh the patch, and push
your way back up.  (That's for pop -f, which exhibits the same behavior; it's
useful for push, too, if there's another change in your wd that you don't want
to refresh into a patch yet through that process.)  I've been using this
recently, and was happy to discover that it worked.  I don't care so much if I'd
need to throw another option into the mix, but I like having it.