yes, and we’d like to reduce that. See for example https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/SingleClickPageCreation
I remember that we discussed “edit mode by default” in the past (I also remember proposing inline editing on double click) but AFAIR most committers were against it (I don’t recall the reasons). I agree that it’s a topic that we should revisit, and you’re raising it by posting this thread so that’s good.