Spawned b/c of NODE-2162

The code below produces the error "$match with $text is only allowed as the first pipeline stage", even though $match with $text is the only pipeline stage. Is there a subtle syntax error somewhere, or what else might be going on?

const collectionChangeStream = collection.watch([
  { $match: { $text: { $search: 'cake' } } },
]);
 
collectionChangeStream.on('change', next => {
  console.log(next);
});

The code above results in sending a pipeline to the server that looks something like this:

[
  { $changeStream: { fullDocument: 'default' } },
  { $match: { $text: { $search: 'cake' } } }
]

This is a result of an implementation detail of change streams. The error message "$match with $text is only allowed as the first pipeline stage" does not clearly identify to a user what exactly went wrong, and how they can fix it.

Is it possible to have a more informative error message in this case?