Why do wooden stairs face the way they do when planning their placement?

[DY357LX]

Why it is, that when planning out where you're going to put wooden stairs, that they face right-to-left (bottom of the stairs are horizontally on your right instead of the base of the stairs being directly in front of you).

 

This makes placing stairs a lot more hassle than it needs to be, and then, when they get rotated, they flip straight back after a slight height adjustment.

 

I'll post a screenshot shortly to clear up any confusion.

[Joerivang]

I always build everything with a friend, it makes it much easier to place objects perfectly accurate. I can agree with the fact that it's annoying that they flip back. It would also be nice if you could flip object 90 degrees instead of 180 degrees.