Cant grab bezier handles in effect controls

Am I gaoin mad? I want to control the ease out of a simple pan accross a frame.  I set the keyframe > temporal (and spatial) to beziere. Handle appears. Cant do anything with it.
Just tried this on another clip (a nested sequence) and it worked fine.  Is this yet another bug?
I just removed the speed change on the clip and the handles start working again.

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