Anne Louise Currie found a defect in core related to this, specifically in publishing a changeset from outside the Customizer, such as via the edit post screen as provided by the Customize Snapshots plugin. In particular, publishing changes to options will fail due to the preview filters being added.
To quote from https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/39221#comment:14
This PR implements a hacky workaround to make sure that
preview
logic is not invoked for settings.