Legacy raid difficulty bug

Even though my UI shows ‘Heroic’ and ‘25 man’, I noticed today that I had to set the raid difficulty to Normal and then back to Heroic for the skull to appear on the enterance.

I only discovered this after probably 50 ICC runs not expecting this, so I am rather tilted as I’m not sure how many of these runs/weeks have been a waste of time. Found out when I went to buy transmog and my vanquisher tokens were all normal tokens.

Every boss drops heroic loot.
It has the label on the items.
This only shows that it is Heroic run. I also have a little icon on my screen 5/10/25 man.