My Z-indices are rebelling?

I have a loading gui set in serverstorage instead of startergui because i felt it was better to place it into playergui once onEntered and be done with it

When I made the loading gui, i gave every element in it a Z-index of 8 or 9 in anticipation of the problem I would have today (obviously it didnt work)

Under that I'm about to design a menu gui which is placed in the startergui

My problem is that the elements of the menu gui, which have a Z-Index of 1, seems to be interfering with my loading gui, which to me is completely illogical considering that, in addition to having an unnecessarily high z-index, it is also completely opaque.

I can say that this looks as if the menu is on top of the loading gui

However problem seems to be gone if I simply put the loading gui inside startergui

Is it that objects that are cloned into playergui are automatically displayed lower in zindex

I am so confuse ;.;