HTML comments nested within option tags are copied into choices items

[ActuallyACat]

Describe the bug
When there are HTML comments within select options, this content is copied into the choices items.

For my particular use case, the initial select and option tags are generated by Lit which adds some metadata in the form of HTML comments to manage dynamic content.
E.g.

<select>
  <!--?lit$486671054$--><!---->
  <option value="asl"><!--?lit$486671054$-->American Sign Language</option>
  <!---->
</select>

To Reproduce
I've made a minimal reproduction in Codepen: https://codepen.io/actuallyacat/pen/WbeNWeg

Or you can refer to this snippet:

<select id="choices-example" class="form-control" placeholder="This is a placeholder" multiple>
  <option value="">
    <!-- HTML comment 1 -->
    Select an option
  </option>
  <option value="dog">
    <!-- HTML comment 2 -->
    Dog
  </option>
</select>
<script> 
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
  let choicesConfig = new Choices('#choices-example');
});
</script>

Expected behavior
I would expect that any non-text content within the options would be filtered out.

Screenshots

Choices version and bundle

• Using latest version from the CDN, v11.0.2 (at time of writing)
  https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/choices.js