With Studio, as soon as you add your first light, the entire scene will react to it. So when you add a spotlight or pointlight with default settings, the light is sitting on the floor... therefore anything else is dark. That's why it happens.
But if you start by adding a distant light first, then the whole scene lights right up. I start with the spotlights first because having the rest of the scene dark actually helps me figure out where the light is actually going when I switch back and forth between spotlight views and render angles to check things.
[Edited to fix my typos and clarify]
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