Context reactions for node views dont trigger when using panels pages to render node

Sorry, this is going to make no sense.

I have a context that triggers using context_entity_field when viewing a node. Works great. I even got fancy and used panelizer to override the display of the node. Still works great!

Then, I said, panelizer is overkill, let me just make a panels page using the node_view template. Now my context doesn't trigger anymore.

Rendering a node_view panels page doesn't trigger context for viewing a node?