Count with expand inner block

Hello guys,

I asked this question on the vim's subreddit[1], but was encouraged to ask it here too, so I will paste my question:

I don't completely understand vim's behavior when expanding a block selection with a count. Let's suppose I'm inside multiple blocks of curly braces and I vi{ in the inner one. If I want to expand this region, I can continuously i{. That works great; however, if I 2i{, it doesn't apply the count (it doesn't expand twice), while if I 3i{ it expands twice, instead of thrice. On the other hand, va{, a{, 2a{, etc. works as I would expect. I'm not really sure if I'm missing something or that is the expected behavior.

Thank you.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/42l2xj/count_with_expand_inner_block/

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