Preview loses changes

Working on my taxes and have encountered a big flaw in Preview.
If I drag-copy a page from one saved (source) form into another Preview (target) file, do a save, everything looks fine in both files. Neither indicates it is "edited" and needs a save.
[ Note that you have to be careful to drop the new page from the source ABOVE the hairline to add it to the target document. Otherwise it adds it to the view but it's not added to the target document. ]
Anyway, if I then close all Preview windows and reopen the target, most of the field data that was present in the source page is gone. Not all, but most. This is hugely annoying!
Is this a known issue? Any fix or workaround better than re-entering stupid tax form data?

I did a little more research and verified that losing PDF form data is a common problem and not limited to Preview or the Mac OS. We should feel lucky for even being able to save the form with any of the entered data.
A crummy workaround in Preview is to "Export as PDF", which I think is the same as printing to a PDF. This actions destroys the form fields that were in the original PDF (an IRS tax form in my case) but leaves the data in place. That's crummy because making additional changes then is difficult - you have to get it right the first time.
Since Preview can save the form with the data, and can move a page - with the field data - from a form to another document, it seems goofy that it cannot do both of those things together. Instead it loses the field data upon saving and reopening. Not expected behavior!

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