Compounding the problem is that the pool setup process is far more complex than it was in the FreeNAS days–the user now appears to need to step through eight different pages in order to do so. That isn’t actually necessary–the user can click Save And Go To Review at any point after specifying the data vdev(s)–but that’s what clicking Next is going to do.
Edit: not voting because I just don’t believe it matters–iX is going to do whatever they’re going to do. There are feature requests with 60 votes, like this one:
…with no input at all from iX. But this one, with 2 votes, is accepted: