Premiere Pro CC: Unwanted stroke on drop shadow?

I created a title in Premiere Pro CC (2018 version) and I want it to have both a stroke and a drop shadow. However, when I added the drop shadow I noticed it also has a stroke. I can't find a way to disable this. The only thing I can think of is to instead manually add a new text layer and place it below the first one to act as a drop shadow, but since I'm making subtitles for a whole video I think that would be way too much work. I also can't change the opacity of the drop shadow to 100%, because I'm going for a certain look with the subtitles and I want the drop shadow to be transparent.

I looked online for a solution to this but couldn't find anything. Tried the 2019 version and the problem persists. I used another version of Premiere Pro CC years ago and I remember in that version the stroke and drop shadow weren't automatically linked together like this. Adding the drop shadow before the stroke doesn't work either. Does anyone know what I can do?