Patroni config params are not reverting to their default values upon removal from PostgreSQL configuration

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Please, answer some short questions which should help us to understand your problem / question better?

• Which image of the operator are you using?
  http://ghcr.io/zalando/postgres-operator:v1.13.0
• Where do you run it - cloud or metal?
  OpenShift & GKE
• Are you running Postgres Operator in production?
  yes
• Type of issue?
  Bug

Due to an issue with the my environment, it was necessary to increase the following values of loop_wait, retry_timeout, and ttl.
This was done by updating PostgreSQL configuration as follows
oc get postgresql postgres -o json | jq -r '.spec.patroni' { "loop_wait": 60, "retry_timeout": 60, "ttl": 180 }
All changes were correctly applied without any manual intervention.

Upon resolution of environmental issue, same set of values was removed from PostgreSQL configuration.
Problem is that the those values were not removed from the Patroni configuration, they remained the same. This was tested by checking patronictl show-config output and directly in postgres.yml
Expectation was that they would be assigned to their corresponding default values.
https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dynamic_configuration.html

Is this expected behaviour or a bug?
Once, when Patroni configuration is specified within the PostgreSQL configuration, is it necessary for us to manage it manually, or can the operator ensure that the correct values are applied when such configuration is removed?