What am I to make of the layout of IDEAs default project structure?

Question

So ... I go File > New Project > Java Module and type in (1) a project name and (2) a module name and I get a project structure that makes sense to me:

Modules are nested within the project but the .idea file is left outside the scope of the Project Tool Window:

Why that? I'd assume one would like the .idea file to show up here?

And it can get crankier if I go File > New Project > Java Module and swap the order I fill in the project and module names (so I type (1) the module name followed by (2) the project name). In this case I will get a illogical project structure (I think) where later modules, along with the .idea file, become nested in the initial module :

This time I can peruse the .idea file from the Project Tool Window, even though I don't see why it would be nested in a module:

Now I am aware that one may tweak the project and module paths in the wizard, but I don't get this default behaviour and certainly not the way of nesting modules within modules along with the project .idea file.

In my perfect dreamworld, I would have the structure as in the ProjectNameFirst project above, along with the .idea file in the Project Tool Window.

So ... why aren't things like in my perfect dreamworld? What am I to make of the modules-within-modules nesting? and why wouldn't one always want the .idea file to be editable from within the Project Tool Window?

(this is under IDEA Ultimate 12.1.3)

Answer 1

I've had the following from Jetbrains support:

http://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5487081#5487081

There is a bug in IDEA's creation wizard for the first case (ProjectNameFirst).