I don't have a solution but I can confirm this behavior.
In emacs 24.5, the "Point to Register" prompt disappears after pressing "1".
In emacs 25.x, the prompt stays there after pressing "1".
I tried edebugging in both 24.5 and 25.x but the behavior looks the same when doing edebug (the prompt disappears).
I briefly looked at the register.el, but couldn't spot any change there that could be causing this. So the change is probably in some common library in elisp/C.
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Kaushal Modi