Showrunner comments on Daisy

I saw a lot of discussion around Daisy's identity in the episode posts (rightly so, it's confusing!) and this article addresses the question.

From The Wrap (speaker is EP Bruce Miller):

!“One of the big changes was that I was unable to kind of fit Daisy and Agnes in the same timeline, so I had to change Daisy’s character. She’s not [June’s youngest daughter] Nichole, but in every other way I want her to feel like a daughter figure so that June had a relationship with her like that. And so it was very important for me to bring her in at the beginning and establish their relationship.”!<

!By the end of the series, the producers say fans will have a full understanding of how the two are “connected.”!<

!“There’s some critically valuable, important, informative moments throughout these 10 episodes where we go, ‘Wow, June. That’s how the puzzle fits together,’” Littlefield said. “But we didn’t abuse that, so that the audience feels that their ongoing commitment to be with ‘The Testaments.’”!<

The article also says it's been 4 or 5 years since THT.

This is a weird choice imo, >!especially given that Daisy looks aggressively like June lol,!< but what do others think?