iX Talk

What's the best way to have a persistent menu in iX? From what I can tell, there seems to be two ways to populate a the same menu onto many screens. Either create a template screen, or set it up in a background screen.
Setting it up as a background is definitely easiest from what I can tell but there's just one problem. I want my menu to be displayed on top of any other content and in testing I've found that (regardless of z-index values) background screen content is always below foreground screen content.
The problem with using templates is I'm not actually re-using the same menu everywhere, I'm creating multiple instances of it. I can't goto one place and make changes that affect all my screens.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious, are there other(better) ways to do this?

No, you are correct. Those are the only two ways to have menus on multiple screens. And using a template doesn't mean you are using the same menu.