When water flows from the inside of a diamond shape, it does not expand.
A screenshot is worth a thousand words.
This behaviour appeared in 18w33a, so it might be related to the water physics optimisations.
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As far as I can understand: yes.
MC-136107 was not out when I started to write this bug report though.
Does MC-136107 describe your issue?