Unfortunately, the Airtable engineers who designed this feature never considered that finding zero records should never be considered a failure.
I would recommend emailing support@airtable.com to ask them to fix this flaw, but unfortunately, Airtable doesn’t typically listen to user feedback either.
Your only 2 options to workaround this are:
(1) customize your automation by writing your own custom JavaScript script to handle the finding records part,
or
(2) use a professional automation tool like Integromat, which is a low-code environment that doesn’t require any Javascript coding.