eth_estimateGas does not honor gascap = 0

[crisand2]

System information

~# op-geth version
Geth
Version: 1.101411.6-stable
Git Commit: 50b3422b9ac682a8fa503c4f409339a9bff69717
Git Commit Date: 20250130
Upstream Version: 1.14.11-stable

Expected behaviour

return results (example on op-reth below)

curl -X POST localhost:8545 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 161957,
    "method": "eth_estimateGas",
    "params": [
      {
        "from": "0x70c2D4F7b82D8E0966e885b090A50391c4969782",
        "maxFeePerGas": "0x22223b5",
        "maxPriorityFeePerGas": "0x32",
        "nonce": "0x1",
        "to": "0x28f379B5D1b992Bf10B958D74BF2Fc646c30B3Ff",
        "value": "0x0"
      }
    ]
  }'
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":161957,"result":"0x5208"}

Actual behaviour

curl -X POST localhost:8545 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 161957,
    "method": "eth_estimateGas",
    "params": [
      {
        "from": "0x70c2D4F7b82D8E0966e885b090A50391c4969782",
        "maxFeePerGas": "0x22223b5",
        "maxPriorityFeePerGas": "0x32",
        "nonce": "0x1",
        "to": "0x28f379B5D1b992Bf10B958D74BF2Fc646c30B3Ff",
        "value": "0x0"
      }
    ]
  }'
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":161957,"error":{"code":-32000,"message":"gas required exceeds allowance (1698)"}}

even though --rpc.gascap=0 is set