Yes, this is a big difference in the way ArchiCAD and Revit works.
In Revit, every View has its own settings. This means that every time you go from one View to another, the activated View will be displayed with the settings stored for it. If you want to achieve this same thing you should only be using the View Map of the Navigator because Saved Views in ArchiCAD also restore their settings when activated.
A View in ArchiCAD is basically a captured state of a given Viewpoint and its various settings.
A Viewpoint in ArchiCAD is just that: a Viewpoint (one of several representation types standard in architecture, like Floor Plan, Section, Elevation, Detail etc.) with whatever settings are active at the moment.
Here is one thing you can do: use the Window\Palettes\Quick Options menu command to display the Quick Options Palette. This Palette displays most of the settings that are usually stored in a View, such as Layer Combination, Scale, Pen Set etc. You will see that if you activate various Views in the View Map, various items will change in this Quick Options Palette because Views always restore the settings they were saved with.
However, you will see that switching from one Viewpoint to another in the Project Map does not change any of the settings in the Quick Options Palette.
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