How to set the options of a dynamically created lightning:select?

To set the options, you need to set the component's body. Intuitive, no? Here's a demo for you:

({
    init: function(component, event, helper) {
        $A.createComponents(
        [
            [
                "lightning:select", { label: "Select List", name: "list1"}
            ],
            [
                "option", { value: "Option 1", label: "Option 1" }
            ],
            [
                "option", { value: "Option 2", label: "Option 2" }
            ]
        ],
            function(components) {
                components[0].set("v.body", [components[1], components[2]]);
                component.set("v.body", components[0]);
            }

        );
    }
})

---

<aura:application extends="force:slds">
    <aura:handler name="init" value="{!this}" action="{!c.init}" />
    {!v.body}

</aura:application>

Inspired by this DouglasCAyers/sfdc-lightning-picklist-field-component, a workaround that appears to work (and not be sensitive to debug mode being enabled) is to dynamically create this component that iterates over the options:

<aura:component>

    <aura:attribute name="name" type="String"/>
    <aura:attribute name="label" type="String"/>
    <aura:attribute name="value" type="String"/>
    <aura:attribute name="options" type="List"/>

    <lightning:select name="{! v.name }" label="{! v.label }" value="{! v.value }">
        <aura:iteration var="option" items="{! v.options }">
            <option value="{! option.value }">{! option.label }</option>
        </aura:iteration>
    </lightning:select>

</aura:component>

If there is a way to avoid this level of indirection and have cleaner code I would move to it and accept the answer.