If this might be helpful, the deactivated menu items are inaccessible & an empty menu item displays when you hover over them https://ibb.co/PGXfPZY, & if you click on them you get the error message: “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.”
Did you ever get this figured out?
I didn’t using Adminimize. I think I’m going to purchase Advanced Access Manager because I’d like to set up hierarchical User Roles as well as hide most of the stuff in the backend from most people.
I asked the AAM support team a pre-sales question about hiding backend menu items & they said that you can do this with the free version of their plugin & linked to this article https://aamplugin.com/article/how-to-manage-wordpress-backend-menu.
I also asked them about read/write access to specific pages, & they said yes, again for free – & linked to this article https://aamplugin.com/article/manage-access-to-the-wordpress-posts-and-terms.
I think I’ll be setting it up next week if you’d like me to report back on how it goes..