GUILayout.MinHeight and EditorGUILayout.BeginScrollView not respecting layout options.

I suspect I’m just misunderstanding what the various GUILayoutOptions are supposed to do. I’m not actually looking for a workaround, my research has found a few of those; I’m just looking for help to clear up my confusion.

I’d like a fairly simple text control in the editor.

• It should always be at least 60 units high, if all the text can fit vertically.

• If the text cannot fit vertically in 60 units, it should expand vertically, to the height of the text, but at most 500 units.

• If the text is larger, vertically than 500 units, a scroll bar should be shown.
  
  Now I had EXPECTED the following code to create an extreemly simple control like that:

   textScrollPosition = EditorGUILayout.BeginScrollView(textScrollPosition, GUILayout.ExpandHeight(true));
     mytext = EditorGUILayout.TextArea((mytext, GUILayout.MinHeight(60), GUILayout.ExpandHeight(true), GUILayout.MaxHeight(500));
     EditorGUILayout.EndScrollView();
  
  

It does NOT work as expected, so I did some troubleshooting, and I’m clearly not understanding the results, or perhaps, the intention of these functions/parameters:

Let’s start with GUILayout.MinHeight. I would expect this to specify the minimum height a control should be. I would NOT expect it to affect the maximum height of the control. But the following code displays a text area that is 60 units high: All the time, regardless of the text.

    mytext = EditorGUILayout.TextArea((mytext, GUILayout.MinHeight(60), GUILayout.ExpandHeight(true), GUILayout.MaxHeight(500));

If I exclude the MinHeight, it expands/contracts properly based on the text. But it CAN also be less than 60 unit high, which is what I wanted to avoid.
What am I misunderstanding about the GUILayout.MinHeight option?

I’m also unclear what’s going on with the layout system when I use EditorGUILayout.BeginScrollView. If I enclose the above text area, in a scroll view, the height of the text box changes to only two lines of text. Even if I assign the GUILayout.ExpandHeight(true) option, to the scroll view, it still limits the text to two lines.
If I follow the limited examples in the docs, and use a SPECIFIC height option, for the scrollView, like GUILayout.Height(300): THIS option IS respected by the scroll view.
What am I misunderstanding about the "automatically layouted" scroll view?

I’ve seen other answers that go and compute the height of the text and stuff like that, to feed a fixed GUILayout.Height option to the ScrollView and Text Area: and I can certainly do this as a last resort, but I’d like an explanation of what it is that I’m not understanding in the GUILayout system. What incorrect assumptions am I making?