(Bedrock) Unable to select a civilization with Civ NPCs at spawn

Bedrock players are unable to use the civ NPCs at spawn to select a civilization to my knowledge. I can't test this on my alt but several players have mentioned it including just now. To my knowledge there is a workaround (create a faction first, /f create) but players may not try this. It would be good to fix this as the server is likely losing bedrock players from this