Supervisorctl not respecting my configuration

You should run supervisorctl with -c as well. From the documentation (my emphasis):

The Supervisor configuration file is conventionally named
supervisord.conf. It is used by both supervisord and supervisorctl. If
either application is started without the -c option (the option which
is used to tell the application the configuration filename
explicitly), the application will look for a file named
supervisord.conf within the following locations, in the specified
order. It will use the first file it finds.

1. $CWD/supervisord.conf
2. $CWD/etc/supervisord.conf
3. /etc/supervisord.conf