Behat steps to interact with the inplace editable(select) element doesn't work consistently on Chrome

Using "selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.141.59-20210713" docker container as a part of moodle-docker stack, when you try to add some steps to behat test to assign an inplace_editable(select) value by the i_set_the_field_to method value isn't set if the param editlabel isn't assigned in the inplace_editable element.

Edited to add that the problem is unrelated to the editlabel of the inplace editable, it's because Chrome types keys into the select element, and doesn't select the item you intend it to