Please don’t tag along under a 3 year old topic. If you have a question, then start a new topic. But kudos for searching though old threads. If you find something in such an old thread as this, then ad a link to it in your own thread.
Yes, that is (unfortunately) common. KiCad has to have pinouts that work with real life packages, while spice models often have a sort of random pinout. Because of this, there is a method built into KiCad to map the symbol pins to the spice model pins.