Email custom field

Yes, we try to encourage best practices of not exposing email addresses in text directly on the page. The behavior you have noted is meant to avoid giving an opportunity to web bot scrapers who would use the information for nefarious purposes.

We recommend using a text field if your objective is to share the address, perhaps in a case where the site is not open to the general public, for instance.

Relevant to this, the email field is ‘special’ because it is integrated into the options Ninja forms, for example.