Spotlight (mds_store) prevents iPod Classic from being ejected in Sequoia

Since updating to Sequoia, every time I connect my iPod Classic to sync on my Mac, it refuses to be ejected regardless of configuring to be used as disk or not.

Running

sudo lsof | grep /Volumes/iPod

I found it's always Spotlight and its "mds_store" process the one preventing it from ejection with heaps of rows similar to:

mds_store  1979                   root  434u      REG               1,52        4096               61441 /Volumes/iPod/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/7E36DCBB-A099-4F9B-8AE0-9CCD07364F44/live.8.indexPositions

Have tried adding the iPod volume/disc to Spotlight privacy section but it fails with a generic error.

Only way I've found to allow the ejection is to kill the mds_store process altogether, but I'm scared doing this will eventually corrupt Spotlight on the rest of my volumes.

Needless to say, up to Sonoma this issue did not happen.