The interval floor was applied with max(), so the zero that --force
picked could never win: max(0, 15) is 15. Forcing a refresh within
fifteen seconds of the last probe silently served the cache instead,
though --force documents itself as ignoring them.
The window exists to absorb a panel opened and shut repeatedly, which
arrives as --limits-only. --force is a person pressing refresh, and it
should outrank a window meant for flicks.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>