Configurator 1.6 Erasing device before restoring backup?

Can someone explain this to me?
How are we to set up shared iPad carts now? We have to pull every iPad out and go through the setup?
Very confused

This is an unconscionable decision on the part of Apple, whose engineers probably have not been in the field, and cannot imagine how long it takes to load an iPad with the entire iWorks suite & iMovie. This particular batch of four apps can easily take >20 minutes to download, not counting the other apps in the payload. Restoring a backup should have stayed as it was originally designed: to remove all personalization and user-created data only. It was a bone-headed decision that needs to be reversed.
There is no recourse but to send feedback to Apple through this link.
Unfortunately, there is no Configurator feedback page, but this is close enough.

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