I have noticed that some users, myself included, have been increasing the update interval (sometimes far too high for the default channel) to aid in exploring range and evaluating mesh performance.
Before I had any experience with meshtastic and LoRa I had my 5 nodes set to send messages every minute which quickly bump the channel utilization into unstable levels.
This discrete-event simulation is a great way to see how frequent updates can really cloud a mesh-based network. Smart position broadcast is the right solution for real world use and the range test plugin is best for testing.