Why mashed fermentable yields less than unmashed

Meaulnes

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In the recipe editor there is something I have trouble understanding. If the user selects for example 5 kg of a Castle Malting Belgian wheat the gravity is 1.083 (with an efficiency of 72%) as long as the mashed checkbox remains unchecked but decreases to 1.060 when Mashed checkbox is checked.

It seems that the efficiency is applied in the second case but not in the first.

According to the documentation, the checkbox should be checked for mashed malt and unchecked for pure sugar or similar. This seems normal as pure sugar yields always its maximum potential.

This behavior (unchecked for base malt leading to à greater yield) is confusing . Why not to make the checkbox hidden in this case and consider its always Mashed. ?
Could somebody enlighten me or point me at what I miss ?
 

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