Reached out to the Theme creators with some limited assistance. Next step elevating this to the Shopify team. 

Why is this still not possible in 2023? 

We (https://www.timeouttribe.com/pages/home) have an issue where when a person navigates in the French language the menu navigation sends them back to the homepage in English. The nested menus are meant to offer the only links available (use of #) - ...