It does look like your lot is custom made for an autocover pool. It was sunny but raining oak tassels up the road a bit yesterday. I suspect you are aware of using hair nets on your skimmers. They catch an untold volume of pollen and detritus from reaching your filter. But may need to be emptied daily (or more) during peak season, to keep the water flowing. You just toss the hairnets.
On the cover, if you are going to get your one side deck this season, then yes, wait until it's in for the cover install. If not until next year, just have them install the pipes at close this fall. The future deck side will have the same 24" pipes for the attachment points, which will get removed when the decking gets installed. I've never been confident that the pipes will hold strong/straight enough with the pull of the weight but I suppose they work well enough, just depends on solid your soil is. The real weight comes when it snows and the springs get fully compressed and the cover drops a foot down to the water level with a foot of snow on it. I would absolutely recommend getting a mesh cover to reduce the weight from rain/snow, and therefore pressure, put on the pipes. Keeping the cover taut is important so the cover doesn't rest on the pool water in the spring. If it does, the top level water warms quickly from the sun contact with the cover/water and you get green water.
Personally, I'd get concrete around the pool on all sides for access, cover reasons and keeping grass trimmings out.
