Menu behavior/recents long press blacklist topic

I noticed that certain apps do not let me use the menu key/button. When i hold down the recents key for the menu on things like google search, drive or nova launcher, nothing happens. I feel it vibrate like it registered, but no menu pops up. I tried uninstalling exposed, using gravity box to add a nav bar, lmt/pie launcher, and still no menu commands work.

there are workarounds to access the menu on all of these, but it's just kind of annoying. Like these apps are on a blacklist somewhere saying to ignore the menu input.

Can anyone confirm if this is the case with them as well? I noticed this on stock and on iron rom. i have the 8.4.

thanks!!!!