problem of track matte with essential property

Wow wait what it doesn't work? ADOBE WHAT THE HELL this has been driving me crazy, I thought it was my mistake. I just assumed this feature would work properly and have used it all over a huge project, and now I'm getting crazy glitches in random places that are going to be so hard to fix 🤬

Comments like "you're pushing Essential Graphics too far" or "this is an undocumented limitation of Essential Graphics"...it's kind of the responsibility of the software company to make sure their features work before releasing them in production software surely?

This post actually points to an important limitation with EG at the moment.
This is just an example of the fact that currently, essential properties aren't being taken into account when we use the layer as a track matte. I've stumbled across this a dozen times by now, constantly wishing the calculations of EG would happen before the track matte.
@Ishan Y I'm really hoping you guys are going to implement this feature at some point. Having to pre-comp a layer in order to "lock in" whatever the essential properties on it changed is quite impractical.
Let me know if it's unclear and I'd be happy to explain further

I'm going to suggest you're pushing Essential Graphics too far and having one version of the comp be the inverse alpha matte of another version of the comp has some built-in conflict that's not obvious.  The rounded EG works with any other layer though.  As Ishan asks, is there a reason you're doing it the way you are?

Hi there,

Could you try this by creating a rectangle using the Rectangle tool (Q)? Is there any specific reason you're using a composition to create the alpha matte? Let us know.

Thanks,

Ishan