…interesting, why would you have separate default behaviors between your two otherwise identical templates?
Additionally, since posting, I also found the following bug report which you may want to update and resolve if there are no intentions of fixing it.
Thanks for the reply though! 
Note: Ensure that you’re opening the Blueprint in the content browser when changing this value and not applying it to the character in the viewport as it needs to be applied to new instances and not that single instance.