btw: this is largely an intentional choice for the use-case described at www.mesthastic.org for 1.0: A tool for hikers, skiers etc to communicate/share positions. In those cases rate of movement is low and if you’ve clicked the button on the device to look at a particular node it will dynamically ask that other node for an immediate current position update.
For changes to this behavior given all the great ideas people have had wrt to how to use this project, that will be tracked in this bug: