Is there any way to make "create topic" a stand-alone page?

There is a roundabout way. This is a theme component which I had commissioned to put a new topic button in the header that can be customized for links:

And then you can use the custom wizard plugin to create topics. Here’s an example of one of mine, it’s multi-page but gets you the idea:

This can be further simplified and you could have it simply be a composer window with category and tags:

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