What's up with Overbridge and transport control?

I have my Digitakt and Syntakt connected via MIDI cable, and transport control/program change works great when in USB/MIDI mode. However when I switch to OB mode my Syntakt stops listening to my Digitakt. The only thing that seems to work is turning transport on in the OB plugins and pressing play in Ableton, but that’s problematic since Ableton will start playing whatever audio has been recorded, making automation changes and so on.

Kind of a weird design choice, especially since program changes still work while in OB mode…my Syntakt just won’t play when I hit play on the Digitakt. Am I missing something?