It’s definitely intentional to punish free users + trick/annoy you into upgrading.
But this also punishes users who are part of a paid team and just want to create new files within their drafts. All my drafts are my own personal projects or explorations, why would I create my own paid team for that.
Recently after an update I was shown a screen where it made it seem like I HAD to move all my drafts into a team and I panicked that they were going to be deleted. Since the adobe acq fell through I guess they are scrambling to squeeze more money out of their user base.