That's true. I usually do, too. But what problem do you really want an answer to? If you want to know that you will create a new file (if possible) by writing the file name, this seems to be the normal behaviour.
Compare to how test -e work in a shell: | % ln -s thefile thelink | % ls -l thelink | lrwxrwxrwx 1 mirar mirar 7 Feb 1 21:07 thelink -> thefile | % if test -e thelink; then echo yes; else echo no; fi | no | % touch thelink | % ls -l thelink thefile | -rw-r--r-- 1 mirar mirar 0 Feb 1 21:07 thefile | lrwxrwxrwx 1 mirar mirar 7 Feb 1 21:07 thelink -> thefile | % if test -e thelink; then echo yes; else echo no; fi | yes
