I think that's the standard way that you exit any hijack app.

You go into hijack menu. You run an app in hijack. You exit that app, you're back at the hijack menu. Just makes sense.

The only part that's confusing to you is that Emphatic shows you an emulated (scraped) version of the player screen, so you would think it should drop you back to the player screen. But emphatic didn't come from the player screen, it came from the hijack screen and then scraped the player screen behind the scenes.

Think about it this way. What if the thing you'd run wasn't emphatic. What if it had been tetris. You go into the hijack menu, you run tetris, you exit tetris, you would expect to be back at the hijack menu. Right? Emphatic is no different.