Eyes of Ender do not work with execute on origin

Despite having entities like eggs, snowballs, arrows etc work with "execute on origin", Eyes of Ender are an exception to this sub command and don't work.

 

Reproduction steps:

1) Get an Eye of Ender

2) Run the following command: /execute as @e[type=eye_of_ender] on origin run say hello

3) Take note as nothing happens

 

What is happening:

 

The command fails to find the owner of the eye of ender

 

What should be happening:

 

The command would run successfully and make the player say "hello" in chat via the say command