Houdini sim does not create target directories

We are submitting renders and sims with the Alembic and Mantra nodes in Houdini, with their “Create directories” option turned on. However, it appears that once a render/sim is complete, the files cannot be copied to the real location from the slave’s local mapped directory because the directory does not exist.
My guess is that the “Create directories” option affects creating the local directories, and not the actual ones.

As a workaround, we customized the submitter to create these directories.
Is this a bug? Or have we missed configuring something?