Simple Max4Live Q regarding notein/out and sustain

I thought I was being clever and created a patcher to monitor notes in a specific way (note#, name, & staff), that I'm using around a complicated ableton live set. Turns out my patcher is stripping out Sustain, which is not what I would have expected and became really hard to track down.

The problem boils down to this snippet. Even if all I'm doing is replicating notein to noteout, and just displaying the note#, it strips out sustain.

Looks like I can simply disconnect the noteout and put the below in the patch and it works. Is this the right way to do this?

This is the complete patcher with the above fix.

Thx!