XZise added a comment.
Ah, okay the relevant code was directly copied from compat in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rPWBCe500504d2d49ba2ede545f12bc8c4afa9c90d... and compat does use `fallback=True` by default. Not sure why https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/pywikibot-core/ is using `False` by default though.
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