slot bonus says expanding wilds count but tracker skipped every feature win.

so i was on this egypt-themed slot last night, the bonus round says it adds expanding wilds and all those are supposed to count toward the feature tracker at the top. but every time the wild covered a reel, the tracker just ignored it, only moved when a regular bonus symbol hit. i was honestly more excited for the tracker than the payout, kind of sad to watch it glitch like that. do all these slots have weird rules on what the tracker counts? i always assumed wilds counted for everything unless fine print said otherwise. if i missed some rule, i didn’t see it in the paytable. i keep thinking of how the roulette wheel never skips a number, but with slots, it’s like rules change on a whim.