Why is bash errexit not behaving as expected in function calls?

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You started to quote the manual but then you cut the bit that explained this behaviour, which was in the very next sentence:

-e Exit immediately if a pipeline, which may consist of a single simple command, a subshell command enclosed in parentheses, or one of the commands executed as part of a command list enclosed by braces returns a non-zero status. The shell does not exit if the command that fails is part of the command list immediately following a while or until keyword, part of the test in an if statement, part of any command executed in a && or || list except the command following the final && or ||, any command in a pipeline but the last, or if the command’s return status is being inverted with !.

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