System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 512.59

Blender Version
Broken: version: 3.1.2, branch: master, commit date: 2022-03-31 17:40, hash: rBcc66d1020c3b
Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected)

Short description of error
[Im trying to affect the pre-existing shape key through a vertex group generated by modifiers like:
1- vertex weight proximity modifier
2- data transfer modifier]

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
[Everything is set up in the file with different examples of cases that work and those that don't]
[Based on the default startup or an attached .blend file (as simple as possible)]