Search terms - products are not sorting manually on the frontend

[KCzaplinskaAcc]

Preconditions (*)

1. Magento 2.4.2-p2
2. Have products in db.

Steps to reproduce (*)

1. Go in Admin Panel to "Marketing -> Search Terms"
2. Add search term.
3. Go to "Merchandiser" tab.
4. Sort some of the products manually.
5. Go to the frontend and type this search term in the search input.

Expected result (*)

The products for that search term should be displayed as we sorted them. The manual sort should be applied.

Actual result (*)

Manual sort is not applied.
Products are displaying randomly. The product I want to be first is not.

Additional information

We found out that one line was removed in this PR, which is (probably) causing this issue -#27263

After adding this line: " $this->addToolbarBlock($collection); " the sorting products by manual sort are working, and for now it is our workaround for that.

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[engcom-November]

Verified the issue on Magento 2.4-develop branch but is not reproducible:
Added a search term and verified Sorting using Search Term on Front end - No issue.
Sorting by Product name or Sku is also working fine in all Admin and Front end pages - No issue.
@kczaplinska kindly verify the issue on Magento 2.4-develop branch and provide missing steps if any if the issue is still reproducible.
Thank you.

[KCzaplinskaAcc]

@magento give me 2.4-develop instance

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Hi @kczaplinska. Thank you for your request. I'm working on Magento instance for you.

[magento-deployment-service]

Hi @kczaplinska, here is your Magento Instance: https://c3ab9305c1986d191ef2db4f7ab4234e-2-4-develop.instances.magento-community.engineering
Admin access: https://c3ab9305c1986d191ef2db4f7ab4234e-2-4-develop.instances.magento-community.engineering/admin_cde9
Login: aab8ce29
Password: 72ca6654561b

[KCzaplinskaAcc]

@engcom-November Thanks for checking!
I checked on the above instance but there is no "Merchandiser" tab in search terms - probably because the smile/elasticsuite 2.10.6 is not installed there.
I could not find any raised tickets about it in their github so in that case, I think I will create an issue there.
Thanks for your time.