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cookiemonster
I always build Archetypes with the spokes crossing the centre, as you put it (I think!).
On a rear wheel viewed from the DS, first spoke to the right of the valve hole always goes to NDS hub flange, while its corresponding larger hole inside the rim is offset slightly to the DS.
The spoke holes all pass through the centreline pointy bit of the rim profile, but are drilled at an angle alternating with each hole (I think; also can't check right now), and the larger holes inside the rim are offset as a result.
To build 'one spoke over' would put a lot of stress on the nipples and rim's nipples bed, potentially leading to spoke or nipple failure, or some kind of rim fatigue failure as a result of the nipple bed being twisted this way and that.