When you create an index, you can provide a body with settings. One of those settings is number_of_shards. Prior to version 7, this defaulted to 5. As of version 7 now, this defaults to 1. Maybe that's what you're seeing?
What is it you're trying to achieve exactly? If you only want to see one hit, you can use the size parameter instead of terminate_after.
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