Unable to detect the System Admin in a validation rule error condition formula

Question

I have a business scenario where I would like to restrict the transition to the Accepted status of the Quote object, only to the admin.

For this I configured a validation rule with the following error condition formula:

AND( 
   NOT($Profile.Name == 'System Administrator'), 
   ISCHANGED(Status), 
   TEXT(Status) = "Accepted" 
)

The problem is that this rule is preventing all types of users(admin and non-admin ones) from transitioning to the Accepted status.

In a bunch of other threads I have checked that this is actually considered an accurate approach.

Notes

I know that out there exist other approaches that are considered more efficient and consistent, like i.e. using a permission set, and referring to it, and not hardcoding the profile name in the rule, or even using custom settings.

In this case I am interested why Salesforce can detect this simple token through the $Profile.Name field.

Answer 1

It may be due to translation because profile name translated to a language used on Org. We already have a post regarding that ($profile.name in validation rule not working). You can choose one of the suggested solutions from this post.