Unable to change AI difficulty while in F2 season

Same issue for me on PS5. Really annoying because i calculate my difficulty for every track to make it as realistic as possible. But if i cant change the difficulty before i start quali on a new track that means no driver career mode for me until this is fixed. If i remember correctly this was a problem when F1 23 released as well, until they made it possible to go into settings from the qualification screen. Strange they made the same mistake again. And annoying. Makes me feel like i paid a good amount of money for a game i cant play fully yet because i cant change difficulty per track. And to add to this if you have done a F2 race in driver career mode you cant even go to the menu because it drops you right in the quali for the next track without options to go to a menu. So you have to close and restart the game if you want to go to the main menu. Seems its an easy fix. Just give us a settings button in the qualification session. Like there was in previous games.