I suppose this would be less of an issue if the first launch didn't try to open every single app/service that was running before the reboot all at the same time

I suppose this would be less of an issue if the first launch didn't try to open every single app/service that was running before the reboot all at the same time. This is frustrating behaviour in general when you have a bunch of apps open at work. Slack will repeatedly attempt to steal focus on launch as it displays a splash screen and then the real app (a chat client requires a splash screen now!?), most apps using Sparkle for auto-updating will throw more prompts at you as new versions roll in, a different updater from Microsoft or Adobe will boot up to check on those installs...meanwhile all of them are trying to resize to full screen or appearing in some next-best position, because they're all competing for the foreground. You can't do shit until you're sure the computer's settled down. And that's before you get the extra permission prompts.