GUI holders (ScreenGui, SurfaceGui, BillboardGui), parented under ANYTHING, which parented in PlayerGui, will delete ignoring "ResetOnSpawn"

[GamEditoPro]

If BillboardGui, ScreenGui or SurfaceGui with “ResetOnSpawn” property set to false will be parented under ANYTHING which parented under PlayerGui will not reset on respawn, but just completely delete:

This behavior really hurts Folders and Models, cause it’s common containers for any stuff. I noticed this accidently, and this bug hurted 3 of my gui-based systems, which I need to rewrite now.

Reproduction steps:

1. Create folder in StarterGui
2. Create any GUI-container inside it (ResetOnSpawn doen’t matter here)
3. Run test
4. Respawn your character in any way
5. Gui in folder will dissapear

Expected behavior

I expect that any object, used as container for GUI objects, will work the same as PlayerGui - if object has property “ResetOnSpawn” toggled - it will reset. And GUIs just shouldn’t completely destroy in any case.

[bvetterdays (roman)]

Already reported & labeled as intentional behavior due to backwards compatibility :

ScreenGui property "ResetOnSpawn" doesn't work when the Gui is inside of a folder

Hi David, thank you for the report! Unfortunately, this is a behavior change that would not be backwards-compatible. Experiences that depend on the existing behavior of ResetOnSpawn applying only to direct descendants would break. We will update the documentation to make clear that this is the expected behavior.