Here’s what I found out. At the ‘major competitor’ the default is to NOT create contacts unless requested. So there’s some sort of check box or prompt to create for each address that is not already a contact.
Here, it’s the opposite. The default is to create unless requested not to.
Now, as I stated before the fastest workaround is not to create and then go delete but at least when I tried this using Outlook (haven’t tried within HS directly) I can go to the toolbar, click on the bottom right corner of the HS group on the Outlook toolbar and it opens a more advance dialogue box were I can paste the email addresses that I copied from the cc or to fields in the box title ‘never create contacts for these people’.
Unfortunately, the next time you go to email, you can’t really remember if you already said no to the add’l email addresses or not and if you do want to create a contact in the future, you would have to take them out of that list where you nixed them.
Of course it would be best if the default were no. I think I’m loathe to assume it was some evil agenda to boost pricing. They probably just felt it more prudent for sales to grab everyone than to miss out on someone. However, the competition does the reverse. Seems like the way to go.