Totally agree! Quite ridiculous the way it's working right now. They doesn't make it easy to use their product! Can't believe nobody else is bothered by this?
I've faced this personally, spending time cloning lists, only to have my team find settings weren't preserved. List cloning's core purpose is safeguarding and replicating the original list's settings, not default ones. HubSpot should consider addressing this crucial functionality.
Yes, yes, yes! This is such a strange oversight on behalf of the HubSpot team. Why create the new cloned list with the default column setup when it is clearly intended to be a CLONE!