Yes, the constant refreshing of metadata is very annoying. You can disable it for searches, though. Gnome software sometimes becomes very unresponsive because o

Yes, the constant refreshing of metadata is very annoying. You can disable it for searches, though. Gnome software sometimes becomes very unresponsive because of this (and because of flatpaks silently downloading a >1GB runtime). Probably a reason while it gets so much FUD.