pages, open new doc with defaut page

Hello -- I'm using a Mac with OS 10.15.4 and Pages 10.0. Two questions, please.

Pages never opens a new doc to the default I've set. It always shows the template chooser anyway. Mac doesn't let me insert a screen shot here, but that's the setting it would show.

Second question: I'd like to open every new Pages doc to the "document only" view. Pages always opens with the thumbnails on the left.

In the pre-2020 Pages, none of this was a problem.

Thank you.