It seems that someone else found a workaround for this issue here:
Basically, just adding a Size, Position & Rotate filter to the Head of the track makes the transition work as intended, with one exception.
If the images from the track are not the same width, a short unwanted compress-strech effect occurs with the second picture, so it’s still not ideal.
Here is the workaround with the new bug test.zip (1.8 MB)