Publishing production, views still in the 'views' folder

Still not sure this is right adding

  <ItemGroup>
    <Content Update="Views/**">
      <CopyToPublishDirectory>Never</CopyToPublishDirectory>
    </Content>
  </ItemGroup>

to the .csproj file stops the views being copied to the publish folder.

i’ve also noticed the starterkit will then create (some) of them on first boot :frowning: - which is just due to my testing.

After this. the site does have all the templates defined and the site works, but i still get the empty template view in the back office (for the ones that the kit didn’t create - but which exist in the razor)

i can still see and save, but the changes don’t get written to disk?

Am i now at the point of this is the ‘current’ behavior and there are things to report for v16, or am i still missing something