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"How could a UX team possibly conclude that the precise moment a user shows unambiguous intent to use your product, is the best time to get in their way?"

Well, the most natural answer is that it's not a UX team. It's the software engineers observing that since our program isn't running all the time, this is the moment we have to check for things.

And roll around that design issue a few more times and that's why your computer is running upwards of dozens bespoke programs that do nothing but scan for updates periodically and consume surprisingly large amounts of resources to do it since apparently most programmers can't write a program to try a network request every couple of days to consume anything less than a gig of RAM and 25%+ continuous CPU.