Docx: comments to footnotes not saved

when adding comments to a docx document, comments to main body text get saved, but comments made to text that is in the footnotes are not saved or are empty.

I have two cases:
1 a production text for a book, it was produced with Microsoft Word. then this docx is edited here with LibreOffice writer and comments are added, to main text and to footnotes. saving back to docx and reopening it shows comments added to main text, but no comments that were added to footnotes text are visible.

2 creating a new documents in libreoffice writer, writing text to main body, adding a footnote, adding a comment to main body, adding a comment to a footnote text, saving as docx, reopening it in LO writter shows a comment box to a footnote text, but the box is empty.

is this a bug or unsurmountable limitation of docx?

Version: 6.0.7.3
Build ID: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.13
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group

Word does not support comments in footnotes.

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thank you for fast and clear answer.