The highlighted mention does not change with the cursor movement

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Version Number: 1.3.86.0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: n
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @daveSeife
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1697640197267559

Action Performed:

1. Go to any chat
2. Write @ and the first few letters of any user(Eg: @dave)
3. Move the cursor through the name.

Expected Result:

The highlighted mention changes with the cursor movement

Actual Result:

The highlighted mention does not change with the cursor movement

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native

Screen_Recording_20231018_124932_New.Expensify.mp4

Android: mWeb Chrome

Screen_Recording_20231018_125037_Chrome.mp4

iOS: Native

RPReplay_Final1697647945.MP4

iOS: mWeb Safari

RPReplay_Final1697640399.MP4

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

T162macchrome-1.mention.mp4

MacOS: Desktop

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @stitesExpensify (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[paultsimura]

This is not a bug. As discussed here, the behavior described in the issue is expected.
It was also stated in the PR description here: #29239