add employee - wizard - no longer autogenerating the payroll id

Why has the add employee wizard changed to now not auto generate the payroll id??? this seems to be a backwards step and the digital assistant agrees:

I understand your frustration - you're absolutely right that this creates an extra step in what should be a streamlined process.The Access Payroll integration is designed to automatically send new starters from PeopleHR to payroll, but the system change means the payroll ID field now requires manual input rather than auto-generation.You could potentially streamline this by using the bulk updater tool - set up multiple employees with their payroll IDs in one CSV file that includes the Payroll ID field, which might be more efficient than the wizard-then-update approach.This does add complexity to what was previously a seamless integration workflow.