Why are the Home Screen and Lock Screen ‘linked’ in iOS 16?

This is so frustrating to me. On my old phone I had automations set up to automatically change my home screen and Lock Screen every three hours. The automation would randomly select a photo out of an album that has over 200 pictures.

The shuffle option with the new custom Lock Screen is good, but it’s limited to 50 photos. So I thought, why not just pick my 50 favourite photos and use those for a fun Lock Screen, but keep my home screen automation so that I still get to see those other pictures. This doesn’t work, because as soon as the automation runs my custom lock screen turns off and returns back to default.

So I basically have to choose whether I want to use the cool new Lock Screen options OR have my automation set up with the boring old Lock Screen.

I just don’t understand why the two screens are so tied together now.