Well, with the LCD facing off of the YZ plate, I can understand this, sorta. Mine is that way, too, but I have no trouble with doing the CAM as if I’m standing at the short side, putting the material on it the correct way and standing beside the machine with it homed near my right hand side.
To me, that’s normal enough. Sometimes I do stand by the narrow end to be able to hold stuff down without the gantry going back and forth in front of me over tbe work piece, but I’m always by the long side setting up jobs. In 4 years of using V1 machines this has never caused me confusion, even once. It has never caused me a problem with setting up the CAM to have “portrait” orientation. That’s how the machine behaves, reality doesn’t have to agree.
Maybe I find this abstraction easier because my first 3D printer homed far right, and at the time, I didn’t understand the firmware enough to tell jt that was Xmax/Ymax, so everything the printer made was rotated 180° versus what I saw in the slicer, so I got used to ignoring that so long as I got the part I wanted off of the printer. The CNC is the same, as long as I get what I want, you can label the axes A, B and C.
After all, when the finished piece is going to stand upright, the cut X might be Y and cut Y might be Z on the final piece, so what does it matter what the axis labels are in the CAM and the machine?
Yes, I could relabel the axes, and change the home position, but the LR3 comes eith perfectly good homing switch locations and provisions, why hack in ones for a different location? Why mess with a convenient pre-compiled firmware that just works? Sure, I can do it, but I have other things I’d rather to with my hobby time, and if a layer of thought abstraction between axis labels is all that it takes, so be it. That will cost me zero time and labour and save me a lot when it’s upgrade time. Like swapping from the LR2 to the LR3, and now again to a 4. Zero changes, and the projects for which I have existing CAM, load and run. Nothing to re-do, the old CAM will produce the same project as the original machine did. More work saved.