I know it only takes an extra minute, but I just didn't understand why it was happening.
It's not particularly comforting, but at least I understand why it's happening.
Moving away from the Service Patch approach. Emitted once, when Electron has finished initializing. Which seems excessive - but when you say that Storyline reactivates every time Windows updates, well then that makes sense. Since the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has significantly changed its release strategy for product updates. On Windows and Linux, the will-finish-launching event is the same as the ready event on macOS. I don't even know how many, but I'd say conservatively more than five. I don't really keep track of what's happening behind the scenes - who has time for all of that? But I know that I have virtually never purposefully reinstalled any of the software - version 1, 2, or 3 - and I have had to reactivate each version multiple times. And it's for very minor updates - but I digress. For some reason, Microsoft apparently has never heard of the SoundBlaster cards, because every time they update Windows 10, I reinstall drivers for nearly an hour.
As I said, I'm tired of spending 45 minutes every time there's a minor update and my entire sound system gets blown out. I confess that I leave 'automatic updates' on for convenience, but I'm really rethinking that strategy now. I don't typically reinstall Storyline - ever.