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(Get the code!)
Yes, it's possibly a silly reason. The AutoDJ processor uses the same "view" on the database as the playlist shown in the GUI to decide what track to play next. So if you search that filters the view and the AutoDJ processor will play the next song in your search results, not in the playlist.
This would be easy to change. However -- back when you could search AutoDJ I would sometimes forget I had typed a search query (i.e. something that matches a lot of tracks so it wasn't as easy to notice some were missing) and had the wrong impression of what songs were coming up because of it. So usability is another reason we disable search and sorting in autodj.