Quick actions do not work when issues are opened from alerts

It looks like quick actions do not apply when issues are opened from alerts.

My template includes /label ~incident, but when the issue is created it is not applied:

This may be due to some affect with how quick actions are handled in descriptions. My understanding is that they only apply on initial creation and not further edits: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21505

We may be impacted by the method we are using to save the issue, is not triggering the quick action logic.