Yes, I understand that's a way to pin an installed application, but I'm mostly referring to non-installed portable applications, and as I mention in my original post:

I can pin items to the Start11 menu by right clicking in the menu and choosing to pin a file and navigating to it, but this is not as convenient as the right click Pin to Start option.

My final post above basically lays out the issue in great detail and is something that should be passed along to the devs for consideration. Hopefully one of the community support people can do so.