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Just a guess but probably something to do with running states in the background but connected to external thingies, hard to offload and restore as-is if the external thingies (or the local one) detect timeouts. Easier to just reload the URL than bother to restore an unusable webpage's state I suppose.

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OTOH this is already an issue with you sleep / suspend the machine itself

Don't forget that reloading through the networks gives Google the ability to keep tracking. The requests will go only to that URL, but Google will get it one way or another...

Why would Google need a reload to keep tracking (they already control the browser)? That this feature/implementation was driven by desire for more tracking sounds far fetched to me.

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