V15 - Model.AncestorOrSelf("home") does not work, yet Model.AncestorOrSelf<Home>() does

[asawyermarathon]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

15.0.0

Bug summary

In Umbraco 15.0.0, calling Model.AncestorOrSelf("home") does not return the ancestor home page with doctype alias "home", yet Model.AncestorOrSelf<Home>() does. Is this intentional? I think it is not.

Specifics

No response

Steps to reproduce

1. Create new Umbraco 15 site
2. Create two doctypes, home and subpage, allowing subpages to be created under the home doctype
3. Enable strongly typed models (I'm using "SourceCodeManual")
4. Create a node instance of Home with Subpage node underneath
5. In the subpage template, call var homeNode = Model.AncestorOrSelf("home"); and output an attribute of the home node: Home Node Name: <strong>@homeNode?.Name</strong>
6. The data is incorrect, because the call returns the current node instead of the ancestor node.

Expected result / actual result

No response

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This item has been added to our backlog AB#46060

[github-actions]

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