Configuration Problems 7i92 PnCConf

/homeI am not a dense person. I have read A LOT on configuring. I have set up a couple other machines with StepConf. 
Why does this:

look absolutely nothing like this:

when trying to configure this: 

Mesa configurations do not use pin numbers but channel numbers for things like stepgens and pwmgens
As long as you have the correct firmware, the order of these channels typically matches the breakout

For GPIO, GPIO numbers are used (the connector pin == GPIO mapping is in the readhmid printout)

What is the point of this config page? This has to be the least intuitive config thing I have ever seen.

The point is that for most configurations you don't deal with pin numbers at all,
just channel numbers, which is also consistent with the hal file function naming.

For GPIO (which is not much used on newer systems) it would be helpful if
pncconf listed the pin numbers at least for parallel port BOBs