You pay for a cup of coffee at Starbucks, standing in line until it was your turn to pay. Then you pay and go sat down and drank some of it, while working on your laptop. You get caught up reading HN, and don't take a sip from your coffee for five minutes. You then want to take a sip.
What Apple is doing is like resuming finishing the coffee without going back to the checkout and trying to pay for it again.
You pay for a cup of coffee at a coffee shop. Nominally you get your own cup, and there isn't a limit on the amount of time you can keep it. However, the store occasionally and unpredictably runs out of cups. Also, at the start of a new day a new barista might occasionally come in, and they might not know which cups should still be considered owned. Because of this, everyone else has for years observed a simple procedure where you look to make sure it's your coffee you're about to sip. It's polite and it's just — what's the phrase — not a big deal. You get your coffee, leave for two days, come back and take a drink from the cup that looks like the one you got previously without as much as a glance inside or around.
Yeah this analogy blows as well. What it comes down to is old world technology spends a ton of time on error correction like this and it's an easy place to increase efficiency & speed for portable devices. It's going to keep happening, get used to it.
It's not a small gain, for the record. And the only users you are inconveniencing are ones that are malfunctioning. If everything is working correctly and the AP hasn't been reset, this causes no inconvenience to anyone and results in a clear direct benefit for the user.
You figure a community of developers would possibly give a shit about what matters to the UX, I guess not. You do know that the "U" stands for user, right?
