What is worse is they have it working in illustrator but not in photoshop. Who F%&$ing cares about vector versus pixel make a fix! make it auto run what it needs to. If you need to manually alter after the auto setup then allow it. What is going on now is heinous.
Solution:
Basically, do not go to the tool bar on the side where it says gradients. Instead in PS it is all on the bottom of the layers panel. I know this process has to do with vectorizing but I believe there is a way to automate the style mask using the normal tool bar gradient button. Illustrator already works this way.
Here is the video I used to find the solution