
oh wow really?
Here's why: nobody was "keeping secrets" from you, those of us trying to help can only do it basing on the logic of how things work.
People that can use things and are willing to help can only guess so many possible problems, the weirdest and firing ones are hard to spot if the person with the problem isn't thorough when describing the problem and what they did to try to solve it.
So simply during this month nobody of us ever thought you might be trying to do it on the menu screen.
When reporting a problem give all the possible details, even if it might end up been a boring report.
It's like when you go to the doctor: if you just sit there and tell them "I'm feeling sick" they're hardly gonna be able to figure out what's wrong and then help you. Gotta have data
In all honesty I would never have guessed in a million year that someone would try to touch in-game data when the game hasn't started yet. Now that I got shocked by this finding, I will treasure it for the future and add it to my mental list of "things that might weirdly go wrong"
Trying to access/modify stuff that belongs to a game from the menu makes little sense as all those parameters don't exists until you start playing. This might not be that evident by its self, tho it can be easily guessed: different saves will have different values for all the characters stats, therefore if you don't start a game no character stat exists.
It's like when you're scrolling a pornhub page: all those videos aren't available on your computer yet. Each video will start streaming/downloading only when you actually start watching it.
It's pretty much the same things, logically speaking. Menus are menus.
Trying to modify in-game parameters form the menu is like trying to modify a file when the file doesn't exists.