Nodetitle rewrites link titles when the target node exists

This seems like unexpected behaviour from Nodetitle...

If I add a freelink to the page something like [[Finland|my favourite country]], I'd expect it to output <a href="/path/Finland">my favourite country</a>. Instead it results in <a href="/path/Finland">Finland</a>.

If this is intentional behaviour, can I request that an option be added to make it behave in the first way I described?

It's important to our use case, which is a writing site where we regularly use link titles for comic effect or want to word them so as not to break up the flow of the text.

(N.B. I have PJE's patch installed, in case that affects things.)