It might be a potato culture thing as it was historically common when pasta showed up on shelves in Sweden that the older generation just went with the instruct

It might be a potato culture thing as it was historically common when pasta showed up on shelves in Sweden that the older generation just went with the instructions separately, cooking pre-peeled potatoes loses so much of it's flavor so if boiled, it's done so separately, getting a new ingredient you probably do it as you've always done.