In previous versions of after effects, the Generate: Fill effect always respected layer masks, including feathering and expansion applied to those masks. In AE 23.2, the Fill effect ignores all masks. It is not a solution to use the parameters of the effect where one can specify masks as settings, as these ignore the mask properties like feather and expansion which may be different for each mask. I have an entire library of existing projects that are now broken because of this. I commonly use a layer as, for example, a vignette and then adjust its color with the Fill effect which can be keyframed and expression linked and which does not require editing solid settings to change the color. Now all of those comps appear with an unmasked, fully opaque layer.
Please fix this effect to restore the behavior it has always had in the past.
AE 23.2.0 on Macbook Pro M2 Max Ventura 13.0