Why is release branch created from the dev branch?

[javaduke]

I might be missing something here but my impression was that the release branch should be created from the productionBranch specified in pom, e.g. master or main. Instead it is created from the developmentBranch. Is there any way to control this?
I want the release process to create the release branch from main and commit the next version to the dev, is it possible?