Why would it be confusing exactly ? The fact that it’s not playing at the selected pitch is confusing to me, that’s the way it works in any other DAW.
I produce future garage and use a lot of chopped up vocals in my songs. I often need to experiment to find the right part and the right pitch of a sample to match the rest of the song. This is my workflow, I always did this way (in renoise 2.8 I used the note selection, see the topic I linked in my first post).