This is false. I just now watched it more carefully, and it cleans its nozzle first. However, it does drop the build surface by more than an inch before moving over to do its homing immediately afterward. So, it seems we’re all lucky for that, as I do not see any risk of collision.
Thinking about it now, it makes perfect sense that it would want to clean its nozzle first to remove any leftover filament from the tip so that it doesn’t interfere with either homing or the bed leveling measurements. Presumably that’s the entire reason it does it at all.