search doesn't work for inactive (active=False) many2one

It proves impossible to search for records that have a value in a many2one field that refers to an inactive record.

This is totally counter_intuitive!!

Example:

I have a list with questions handled by certain users.

The model 'questions' contains this:
_columns = {
.....
    'user_id': fields.many2one(
            'res.users', 'User', select=True, required=True),
.... },

When I display the list of questions withouth entering search criteria I can see any and all questions wether from active of from
inactive users. However when I want to filter the list to find all questions delegated to a now inactive user, I will not find ANY question by these users, even though they are visible in the full list.

This appears to be the default for any search view.

I can create a work-around by adding the following ridiculous domain to the user field in the search view:

<field name="user_id" select="1" string="User" domain="['|',('active','=',False),('active','=',True)]" />

I can understand that when entering fields in a form, it is desirable not to show inactive records. That is what inactive means: do not use for new values / table rows. But making it - except for the workaround described above - impossible to find table rows that refer to inactive records is IMHO plain wrong.