mail rules don't work

It is really too bad this just does not work. I am a little frustrated because I just switched to a mac thinking things would work better than linux (which I used to use). But I guess I am going to have to stop using mac mail and install thunderbird (which does work). I thought maybe I was just doing something wrong, but I really don't see what it could be, and why this does not work, and from the sounds of it, it is just a problem with mac mail (which looks like it has been a problem since Catalina or earlier. I am starting to regret my decision to go with a mac.

This is just a test forwarder, and I seem to get a lot of emails from aliexpress, and was an email address I don't mind putting on a public forum, so I used it for a test. I may not need to use the account, but for testing purposes I am forwarding it to another account of mine, and don't want to create an endless loop of forwarding to myself.

I was playing around with a lot of things, and I did get one email forwarded last night, but not all of them, and the manual apply rules does not forward.... I am confused as to why this is not working.

Been doing some more testing, and if I choose redirect it works, but forwarding does not work. However using redirect always gets sent to my junk mail. If I manually forward it goes to my inbox. I am not really sure why forwarding does not work, but redirecting does.