By evasion, I mean treating a success as a critical success. Class features like Evasion, Resolve, and Juggernaut all specifically grant this when they make a save master, but there are other things like the multiclass feats or Canny Acumen which give master proficiency in a save but not the degree of success bump.
One of my players took such a feat expecting the bump, and I had to explain that this wasn't the case. Just to make sure though, I'm not missing a general rule anywhere on it, am I?
No.
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Not only no, but if there were a general rule that made this the case why would Evasion and the others waste space by mentioning it?
Because there's lot of over-precision in the couple of chapters dedicated to creating a character. The goal there is to teach to new players, so it's practical to repeat stuff there, AND it have the big advantage that by doing that, lot of players could create a character by just having the pages for their ancestry, their class, and looking at the feat chapter (and spell for casters), with most relevant rules for their characters right in their class chapter.
I've seen GMs actually printing each class chapters and stapling them separately to give their players only what they needed.