Creating new account inherits pending friend requests from early access

Title:
Creating new account inherits pending friend requests from early access

Summary:
I had an account during early access.
After offiical launch, I created a new account with the same name as before.
As soon as I clicked “create”, I received two friend requests.
I assume these were pending friend requests from before the official launch.

Which means that if someone creates a new account with the same name as a previously used account during early access from a different user, the new user might inherit friend requests from the early access phase.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Have pending friend requests on an account from early access.
  2. Create new account with same name as old account.
  3. Immediately receive old friend requests upon account creation.

Expected Results:
New accounts should not inherit anything from old accounts (as they might be a different user who just coincidentally chose the same name).

Actual Results:
See above.

Game Version:
Steam version, (current version as of July 26th)

System Information:
Desktop-PC, Windows 10