I could do with some help understanding the baloo include exclude options:

I started off with an empty database and modified ~/.config/baloofilerc so it had only $HOME as folder to index as this is the only folder I want to get indexed. No "exclude folders" section.

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folders[$e]=$HOME/

Now, when I open the search config settings applet ("File search" via krunner) it doesn't show what it's going to index but a couple of excluded folders which are outside my home folder. I don't understand where these come from, they were not in baloofilerc when I started, and they keep on coming back even when I delete them via the settings applet.
However, when I change any of the exclude settings and hit the apply button, the excluded folders will get added to baloofilerc.
Begs the question why does e.g. "/media/Win10" need to be excluded if I set it to index only "/home/username", but ok, won't do any harm either.

When updating the baloofilerc via the settings applet it will also add additional /run/media/thomas folders to the "include folder" section which I never configured nor want?
$ balooctl config ls includeFolders
/home/thomas/
/run/media/thomas/f579fdd5-6290-42f8-9876-e8f3527f4747/

And as far as "exclude folders" are concerned, they get added by the settings applet but won't show when balooctl exclude folders is executed?

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$ balooctl config ls excludeFolders

$ cat ~/.config/baloofilerc | grep "exclude folders"
exclude folders[$e]=/media/data/,/run/media/thomas/C7C0-7F54/,/media/Win10/

And to confuse matters even further, it turns out that all of the above is ignored anyway, because when I do a "baloosearch thomas" baloo retrieves files which are in /media/Win10 ? The folder which is supposed to be exluded and which was never added to be included anyway?

Currently the index is at 3GB, what it's indexing I don't know, at least I don't know of a way to see what it's actually doing.

Edit: Almost forgot:
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.66.0
Qt Version: 5.14.0
Kernel Version: 5.4.11-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit