Yeah, if they’re not in the publish directory then you shouldn’t see views deployed. In an Umbraco project it’s normal to have have CopyRazorGenerateFilesToPublishDirectory enabled in the csproj - presumably you don’t?
The observation about compiled razor views is just that if you have views in that directory they will override any that you have precompiled in DLLs and .NET will still watch the views directory for changes - this is because Umbraco includes the runtime compilation package for Razor files, which is basically always on.