Quotes are not converted correctly

Elastic Stack Kibana
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If I send

{"esQuery":{"query":{"query_string":{"query":"host:\"10.250.11.11\""}}}}

then Kibana/Elastic treats the search as host:\" 10 250 11 11 \".

If I had to guess then the problem lies in Escaping_Special_Characters ie \" will never be unescaped, as Lucene sees \" as it should search for " and not for denoting start/end of a string?

I suppose the problem is that " can mean two different things. Eg.

host:" text with a " inside "
     ^             ^
     |             +-- char to search for
     +-- start of string

or

host:" text with a " inside "
     ^             ^
     |             +-- start of string
     +-- char to search for

and Lucene have no way to tell which is which and therefore treats all escaped chars a chars to search for.

A since JSON requires double quotes, all other inner double quotes have to be escaped, and hence Lucene sees them as chars to search for.

Or am I misunderstanding the situation?