Chrome Helper whitelists itself in Firewall settings

I think there is a bug with macOS Ventura. Both the Settings app and the Firewall feature are not working as they should. Didn't have any such problems until Monterey.

The next day, in addition to Chrome, helper apps from other Chromium based browsers (like Brave, Edge, etc.) too showed up in the list:

No matter what changes I make, it would disappear if I close the Settings app and open it again. Everything would return to as shown above.

This is what I did:

1. Disabled WiFi
2. Turned OFF firewall.
3. Deleted the /Library/ Preferences/ com.apple.alf.plist file (after taking a backup).
4. Rebooted.

Now the Firewall entries were blank like this:

I disabled automatically allow permissions and enabled Stealth Mode. These settings are now sticking if I exit the Settings app.

I received a few prompts for incoming connections that I denied. So the setting looks like this now:

But the Block all incoming connections switch still doesn't stick. I'm able to turn it ON, but the moment I close the Settings app and open it again, I find the switch is again turned OFF.

I guess macOS BLOCKS all incoming connections by default, and only those that request to be allowed show up in the list, and the user chooses which ones to allow and which ones to deny.