Thanks for reporting this. It will be fixed in the next release. The issue is that a submaster's non-intensity parameters are HTPing with the absolute and stepbased effects. Instead the effect should always "win" over non-intensity parameters. The defect only happens with non-intensity parameters controlled by subs (displayed in yellow) and absolute or stepbased effects.
Intensity parameters controlled by HTP subs should still HTP with absolute or stepbased effects.
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