Probably this.
> I guess the intent was to pull together the Codex, claw and ChatGPT Work paradigms and simplify them?
Probably this in part, too. They're trying to figure out how to decouple agent lifetime from conversation lifetime, without accidentally making it too useful for end users.
I noticed in the past that tooling - both for AI and in general - tends to miss the features that would make it most useful. Like, look how long did it take for the AI vendors to supported "scheduled runs", and they're still offering only toy-level configuration for that[0]. Wonder how many years it'll take to allow users to configure external triggers, and whether it'll be sooner than forced re-authentication will become frequent enough to make the feature useless in the first place.
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[0] - I understand they don't want users to run this too often, or to accidentally end up spawning a job every 10 minutes - but with limits on frequency in place, there is otherwise no good reason for this to be a limited dropdown, instead of the "repeats every" configuration that every calendar app and phone app already uses.