Due to loading a UserSession Object instead of the User entity, we can't add roles directly to the user entity, and need to use an event to manipulate the UserSession Object. Core issue 📌 Load user entity in Cookie AuthenticationProvider instead of using manual queries Needs work has been opened to track this, but has not been addressed yet. Once its merged, then we can back this feature out in a future version. However, we may wish to leave it in until a number of version have rolled passed. The current shim, has been written in such a way that the patch to core should not effect how this works.
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
current user is an object that implements AccountInterface. not UserInterface. The core issue will not change that, it will only change the core implementation, but contrib can do whatever. You can not rely on alternative current user implementations to be user entities.