[PC/Steam] - ESC from menu/settings glitch (all modes)

Steam version for Windows PC, Keyboard+Mouse

When navigating the menu or settings during gameplay (any gamemode including RedSec), I am unable to exit the menu with the "ESC" key and instead have to manually click the "play" tab instead which causes issues many times. Often times the game has kicked me directly out of live matches while simply trying to exit the settings menu.

Has been ongoing for weeks, several other topics brought up but no response and the bug is not listed in the known-issues thread. From what I gather this is also a problem for Controller input players on PC as well as Console players.