In fact, when you create a new page, you can still edit its name, even if the page is in preview mode.
I have many empty pages, whose names are the the name of the many categories that I used for marking other notes.
Moreover, when you get used to using the hotkey (e.g cmd+e) to toggle preview/edit mode, you will find it is not an issue to change the mode whenever you want.
The following is my observation and opinion:
If you open your notes in multiple editor windows and set each of them in different mode(edit or preview), the new note you created will have the same mode with the note in the activated editor.
Thank you Craig,
So then the formulation in the announcement is misleading.
It does not distinguish “new notes” from “old notes” (newly created vs already existing) and therefore does not fulfill this feature request.
It just makes already existing “option” (command “Toggle default view mode”, default hotkey Ctrl+Shift+E) available from settings window.
Although I see now that settings window is titled “OPTIONS” in Obsidian. Without being aware of this, formulation “new option” did(/does) not make sense.
Insert template should not pop up in preview mode.
Possibly also: When a new file is created, it should be in edit mode even if the default mode is preview mode.
(Why would I want to open a new file in preview mode, I already know it is empty.)
Actual result
Nothing happened (and I am a bit annoyed because I spent time picking a template).