I guess we're looking at interpretation 2, then. The main problem I see with that is that for most sapient systems, it's possible to imagine a subsapient system capable of organizing itself into a similar class of being, and it doesn't seem especially consistent for a set of morals to prohibit creating the former outright and remain silent on the latter.

Imagine for example a sapient missile guidance system. Your moral framework seems to prohibit creating such a thing outright, which I can see reasoning for -- but it doesn't seem to prohibit creating a slightly nerfed version of the same software that predictably becomes sapient once certain criteria are met. If you'd say that's tantamount to creating a sapient being, then fine -- but I don't see any obvious difference in kind between that and creating a human child, aside from predicted use.