It's due to the way they're transferred to the forum - the 1st post is literally what is in the blog, merely mirrored (if you edit the blog the 1st post changes accordingly), and isn't a standard forum post. There's similar issues with the 1st post in poll threads (the ones with the polls in them) as they're not considered normal posts (they also don't get the numbers in the top left corner like normal posts), but polls have their own little set of buttons (reply/edit poll, no quote) rather than simply missing the default ones. It doesn't have a significant impact on functionality due to only affecting the mirrored blog post itself so I doubt it's high priority to change tbh. From what I can tell the only functionality that isn't there is the one to flag the thread (rather than the blog that it is mirrored from) itself. That and the reply/quote buttons, but that can easily be substituted using @mention tags, which are similarly convenient.
Ideally it should get the same treatment as poll posts - it's own little set of buttons for convenient basic functionality (with edit blog rather than edit poll), but the bulk of the functionality is still there as is, just not in such a convenient manner.
Edit: Same issue posted here now, staff are aware and it'll be on the list of things to fix.
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