Deployment local server Connection Folder conflict with project and editor default

I seem to remember that leaving Folder to the local server's docroot (like C:\xampp\htdocs) would mean that PHPStorm would copy files from the project to a folder of the same name in docroot, even if it had to create that folder.

Now, unless I create manually the folder (which I always have match the project folder name), PHPStorm copies files to docroot, and doesn't create the folder there.

Am I remembering this wrong, or am I configuring it wrong?

I figured nowadays PHPStorm would be smart enough to automatically create the folder after I specified docroot (and wouldn't automatically create a sub-folder as docroot if that folder already existed as docroot)... but maybe I'm overestimating.