[MM3-users] Active archivers and archiving and thread question.

Digging into the mailman3 world, and want to check my logic...

We normally don't use archives, so I have "archive policy" set to "Do not archive this list" for our lists. However, the "archives" button is still there on the list info page, and if users go into it, they don't see anything, But they can click "start a new thread" which sends a message to the list, but since archiving is turned off, that message does not show up there. Am I understanding that correctly?

if I have "Active archivers" disabled, that hides that area from the users, correct?

Any reason why these are separated? why have an active archiver, if archiving is turned off -OR- archives are turned on, but no active archiver?