the task is being Aborted rather than be in Draft. Am I missing something?

Yes, the reason is for not missing anything that you might have reported on it.
And usually execute_remotely will get the execution queue as a paramter (i.e. immdiatly launching the Task)
You can now (starting v1.0) enqueue an aborted Task so it should not make a difference, you can also reset the Task and edit it in the UI