Why do layer styles work with track mattes but not stencils?

I'm just wondering what's going on "under the hood."
-- Jeff

In addition, Track Mattes work only on the single layer above the layer with the Track Matte applied not on 20 layers.
I never said something else.
I don't agree that a stencil is a group of layers
They are. Stencils operate on comp buffers, mattes on layer buffers. It's simply tech stuff. Accept it as it is. No point in going insane over such minutia. Layer styles are pretty useless most of the time, anyway, due to how they are applied.
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