Dominion Spreading effects

[von_Schmidt]

As far as I understand domspread (but who really does, these days?), dom will spread without filling a temple province to it's maximum first.

Temple checks go for a temple province.

In a non-temple province, your dominion (apparently your starting dominion, not modified for # of temples!)slugs it out with the enemy dominion(s); winner has a chance to increase own dom or decrease enemy dom.

On another note: everybody (including devs and manual) seemed to agree that domspread should be influenced by the modified, not the starting, dominion.
So does this mean that this is a (fairly major) bug or will we have to learn to live with this as a (post-ante) design decision?
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von Schmidt