But again you arnt even supposed to see those level tages, you only do if you cheese
Oh, sure, at least if we count "clicking on it and seeing what the GAME UI CLEARLY TELLS YOU" as "cheese".
I feel like you are being petulant for the sake of it and purposefully ignoring what the problem is, frankly.
You also seem to assume we can happily ignore this because it's not a problem that will repeat itself over and over across the entire game (if not addressed immediately) which is highly unlikely.
If it's there at the beginning chances are it will be everywhere else in the game. Unless they acknowledge it now.
You know, that old argument about how problems become more costly to fix the longer you ignore them.