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Originally Posted by jztrumbo

I'm extremely confused, because the click shouldn't vary at all when beating whole notes regardless of meter change, no?

No. 5/8 is eighth note beat.
There is no "whole note" in 5/8. There are ties though.

Further explanation to make this clear: a whole note (no matter what meter) is 8 eighth notes. A 5/8 bar is composed of 5 eighth notes. To have a "whole note" click starting from bar 1, beat 1, the click would go
bar 1 beat 1
bar 2 beat 4
bar 4 beat 2
bar 5 beat 5
bar 7 beat 3
bar 9 beat 1 (at which point this pattern would repeat)

Which is why this isn't a thing with odd meters.