Me too! Especially with the short expiration times of LetsEncrypt. But I really don't want to put `nginx -s reload` in the Cron, in case I'm tinkering with the configs and they're suddenly live (which only really happens at staging or at home of course, but still).
That's what I usually do. My problem is that I might be adding a location and nginx reloads between that and adding access restrictions (i.e. because I took a break to google).