Why is it that despite my caller ID being set as my email address, my iPhone randomly send iMessages from my phone number?

Sometimes my friends I'm in a group message with ecieve my iMessage from my email address and other times its from my phone number. I have the caller id for iMessages set as my email address so I can receive them on my iPad too but my iPhone randomly decides to still send it from my phone number sometimes. Why?

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