Escaping a backtick with a backslash in backtick-delimited inline code seems to be broken

In the comments, you can use

`\`` 

to escape a (code formatted) backtick, like so:

resulting in

However, in question (and answer) posts, it doesn't work. It ends up looking like three backticks: ```.

To get what you want you have to use <code>...</.code>, or least that is how I worked around the issue:

<code>`</code> 

which gives: `