If you just press add, ignoring greying out, or remove any item in dropbox, dropdown is active again.
This is bad from the point of usability: user may think it is not possible to add new items after field value is saved for the first time.
Probably it applies to 6.x too
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crea commentedCan't reproduce this with guarantee. Probably duplicate of #453048: HS select becomes disabled after refreshing page in Firefox