302 redirect to /404 for non-existent paged Author archive

[kclarke10]

I'm talking about non-existent paged Author archives -> (like for example: https://domain.com/author/mike/page/15/, where mike has only 100 posts with wp set to 10 posts per page)

When Co Authors is enabled, instead of just doing a 404 on that URL, it sends a 302 redirect to domain.com/404 which then returns a 404 code.

Only noticed this because Google has been trying to crawling domain.com/404 thousands of times when it decides to probe these paged archives that don't exist and have never existed. This wastes crawl budget.