A surprising lack of sense when it comes to placing objects

So, I figured I'd re-up my account in time for Going Rogue. I noticed they added "Escort to Object" tech, which is cool, albeit it doesn't work exactly like the missions the devs made beforehand. (I have to click the object and bring the escort there? That makes no sense!) But anyway, I tried my hand with them. I set up a CoT mission in an Orangebagel. I set up the escort in the middle and the object in the back, y'know, so the player has an excuse to go through the whole map. Somehow, though... the escort and object end up in the same room. Is this a bug? Because the preview map pretty clearly marks the end objects and the middle ones, and none of those are together.

A lot of maps have "middle" and "back" switched for blinky placement. Try setting your blinky to "middle." It's a long-standing bug but at least it's consistent; if your map is one of the switched ones setting it to "middle" will always make it spawn in the back.