Couple of things come to mind. First, it could be deliberate to enhance imaging. Next, it may not be "real" in the sense that the overall energy you hear in a room may be different, or it is designed for zero toe in and listening at an angle which eliminates this issue.
Despite the guys at ASR getting their panties all knotted up, if a bear poops in the woods and there’s no one there to smell it..... oh, I forgot the metaphor but basically if you don’t hear it who cares?
This from a speaker maker who sweats each Hz and each dB!! 😂
Might be fun to MEASURE it in your room, and them switch a compensating parametric EQ curve in and out to see if you care and which you prefer.
This is kind of tickling my memory of theater speakers, which were often 2-way and horn loaded. We never had perfect crossover matching, but we did have very good sounding theaters. This horn/woofer alignment striikes me as similar.