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This is actually something that I realised recently as well. To circumvent this, I haven't found another solution aside from building my own table of contents and create an article that has the same structure as the category page I would have created. To me, it also kind of defeats the point to have a category page that people won't even get to see, because intuitively, who exactly would click on that symbol instead of just using the dropdown menu? Not many people I would assume. I never bothered clicking on that symbol to look at the category page and never even realised what it meant before trying out category design for myself.

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I think the way the category is formatted when selecting from the codex tree view does make a great deal of sense, because it retains the overall navigation tree making it easier for viewers not to get lost. Having said that, there are definitely times when the full category page is what you want to look at. I feel that should be the choice of the viewer rather than the designer, though. Currently AFAIK you can only do this by clicking on the parent hyperlink provided within a child category (category x is IN caregory y and y is a hyperlink). Maybe an improvement would be to provide a "self" link on the category summary pane which shows from the treeview, rather than having to drill down which is a bit convoluted. So make category x AND category y hyperlinks in that pane with the former opening up the full category page for x, just as the latter does for y.

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