Yes, indeed, now the phone number goes first on the first registration page, but registration does not cause any difficulties, the notification of the verification of the email address has come, so so far everything is fine with this.
Entering a phone number is the last thing a user wants at the moment when registering. You might consider that a user has the option to enter the phone number if they are logged in to the my account section, but this should certainly not be required. It would be good if Bitlucy fixes the problems that exist at the moment, but Royse777 seems to ignore that. Very strange also that bitlucy is an account on the forum and that Royse is the representative.