Weapons in Free fire overiding style selected in IL

I had bugged this issue but not entirely sure if it is a bug or some mechanism where I am doing things in the wrong order.

I find that in if I have a weapon loaded in free-fire when I come to IL with 'spystyle' I am shown fighting with weapons. The only way to get myself fighting hand to hand again (as I think spy-style buffs only apply then) is to select self defence on the free-fire box AND the self defence on the IL box....the latter action disables (or seems to) Spy-style generally meaning its at least one full round before I am able to get the spy-style buffs working..... I had a similar experience with one other style but unfortunately can't recall that atm :/.

Is it a bug or am I missing something?

A shame is what it is. CR2.0 wasn't even supposed to deal with Spies or add 10 extra hotbars, now when they figured that they have time for them they end up doing a half arsed job with them. MxO needs to play the Powerball, they can't keep on depending on us to give them the millions that they need so that they can fix this game real proper like.  If I had the money & they asked rilly nice, I might even give them a loan to help this game get hot again.

Did this problem with fists & spystyle work before they supposedly fixed sneak?