When you create a redirect with wikitext, it adds redirect=no.
However, VisualEditor does not (just venotify=created), so you end up going to the target. Besides being inconsistent, that means it's one extra step to check WhatLinksHere, etc.
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65926