4 Nether Brick makes 4 Nether Brick Blocks

At the moment, four popped chorus fruit can create four purpur blocks. I think that it would make sense for this recipe to be the same among all blocks, four nether bricks for four nether brick blocks. Smelting four netherrack for a single block of nether brick becomes very time consuming with larger structures, and also consumes a ridiculous amount of furnace fuel.