This is a complicated issue. You absolutely have a point.
At the same time Mamluk nobility is pretty well entrenched in the entire region and it makes good sense for separatists to be Mamluk. Separatists are not necessarily driven by nationalism after all. Even under Ottoman occupation the Mamluks remained quite powerful, and the source of any rebellions as far as I know, up until Mohamed Ali (who dealt with them quite harshly, among other things through his own version of a red wedding* precisely because they where so entrenched in Egyptian society).
Basically unlike other states that start with a minority culture in the game it would be far from unthinkable for an annexed Mamluk state to be recreated (and arguably this could've happened a few times). This is more or less why the setup is the way it is right now.
The idea with the form Egypt decision is that you deal with the Mamluks and instead create an Egyptian nation.
If we make separatists Egyptian from the start then this link to how things kind of happened historically is lost.
In a way this is not so different from how separatists in India can form new sultanates in the Deccan.
*not actually a wedding.
Edit: also, this is more for the suggestions forum
At the same time Mamluk nobility is pretty well entrenched in the entire region and it makes good sense for separatists to be Mamluk. Separatists are not necessarily driven by nationalism after all. Even under Ottoman occupation the Mamluks remained quite powerful, and the source of any rebellions as far as I know, up until Mohamed Ali (who dealt with them quite harshly, among other things through his own version of a red wedding* precisely because they where so entrenched in Egyptian society).
Basically unlike other states that start with a minority culture in the game it would be far from unthinkable for an annexed Mamluk state to be recreated (and arguably this could've happened a few times). This is more or less why the setup is the way it is right now.
The idea with the form Egypt decision is that you deal with the Mamluks and instead create an Egyptian nation.
If we make separatists Egyptian from the start then this link to how things kind of happened historically is lost.
In a way this is not so different from how separatists in India can form new sultanates in the Deccan.
*not actually a wedding.
Edit: also, this is more for the suggestions forum
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