San Francisco introduced ranked choice as an alternative to having expensive runoff elections. Since we adopted this weirdo approach we have had two wonderful anomalies. Oakland also chose this weirdo approach and they immediately got an anomaly.
In San Francisco two of the supervisorial districts had an outcome where the leading candidate was far ahead of the rest but short of 50% of the vote total. So another, not necessarily the second runner up, was selected to fill the office. In Oakland, the Mayor was chosen from several runners up after the most popular and best known candidate came in short of the 50% mark.
Personally I like to see the most important candidate lose because all election candidates are people who have outsized egos and are irrelevant to the issue of representation.
I have no problem laughing at this ranked choice chaos. The only intelligent form of democratic representation is random sampling of the population for service in legislative bodies.