PWA 2013 "Add a new task" - inconsistent task insertion behavior

Hi all!
New to the forum and wondering if anyone out there has insight into what I've encountered with the "Add a new task" feature in on-prem Project Server 2013.
First some context... I am setting up 12-month projects for different teams to forecast and log their administrative and reactive time for the year.
We are tracking this within enterprise projects. The projects have a series of summary tasks that serve to categorize work. There is a placeholder task within each summary task that establishes duration and where we may assign generic resources
to establish a baseline cost for the 12 month period for that category of work. The vision is for team members to go to their PWA Tasks list, "Add a new task", select the project and the summary task to categorize and add their new task to
the project, enter the task information, and submit for approval.
My issue appears when the Project Manager approves a task and opens the project in Project Professional because the system appears to exhibit inconsistent
behavior - Scenario 1 vs Scenario 2 below.
Scenario 1 – Project structure prior
to adding a new task:
Project Summary Task, 260d
-Summary Task, 260d
--Placeholder Task, 260d, generic resources assigned, ID=n
-Summary Task, 260d
Team member adds a new task and submits. The new task is inserted as a child task to the summary task selected when adding
the new task. This is what PWA Approval Preview shows and what is found when file is opened in Project Professional:
Project Summary Task, 260d?
-Summary Task, 260d?
--New task just added, 2d?, named resource assigned, ID=n
--Placeholder Task, 260d, generic resources assigned, ID=n+1
-Summary Task, 260d
Scenario 2 – Same project structure as scenario 1... team member submits a new task
and the new task is inserted per below. This is NOT what PWA Approval Preview shows. PWA shows the new task as a child of the summary task. Once approved and the file is opened in Project Professional, the task instead reflects as a child
task to the placeholder task, and impacts the duration of the original summary task:
Project Summary Task, 260d?
-Summary Task, 2d?
--Placeholder Task, 2d?, generic resource assignments, ID=n
---New task just added, 2d?, named resource assigned, ID=n+1
-Summary Task, 260d
I am using separate project files to produce the scenario, and as far as I can tell they are set up exactly the same, but one file consistently produces
scenario 2 behavior and the other consistently produces scenario 1 behavior. It seems that something is different between the two files and causing the issue, but I can't figure out what it is.
Any idea what I could do to establish consistent (preferably Scenario 1) task insertion behavior from PWA?

Anyone else running into this? We're now on the April CU and still experiencing this apparent bug. I've replicated it in different PWA instances using "Add a new task" from both the timesheet and tasks.
It only happens on certain projects as Greg mentioned... One way we've been able to pinpoint where it's taking place: since the bug causes a task to become a summary task, and since most of our tasks have assignments, if a project contains any summary
tasks with assignments, those may be an early indicator of the bug (after we rule out PM-induced summary task assignments).
We're seeing this impact our project actuals and reports, so there is a fair amount of going back through approval history and restoring actual hours to the correct calendar dates in the Project Client. Not ideal, because we are planning to lock that
capability down in the near future.
On a whim, I tried using the "Save for sharing" method to fix the issue, and new tasks appeared to insert correctly after that. Seems OK for a workaround (we'll see how durable it is), but better yet would be consistent new task insertion
behavior.

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