Ok now I get what your saying. Your just talking about the drop-down menu that in Maya changes what menus are available in the top menu bar and in Soft, changes what menus are available in the side menu bar. Neither is context sensitive based on what you have selected, it’s just providing a different set of menus depending on what mode you chose. In softimage, if you alt+right click an object, you get a different menu depending on the object/component type, so one menu for what makes sense for faces, and other for edges and another for points, etc.. I only use that sparingly, normally for getting to things like ‘bevel’ quite quickly after I have my selection ready. For most other things, like welding and splitting edges, there are way more interactive options that Soft provides by default.
Cheers, thanks for explaining that, I was very confused Joseph, my bad.