Ha, what a coincidence. Just today I was reading a three year old Stackoverflow discussion about this [1].

It prompted Laurenz to submit the documentation patch that is cited in the article. In the discussion of the patch itself, people seem to conclude that it's a good improvement to the docs, but that the behaviour itself is a bit of a footgun. [2]

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73951604/autovacuum-and-...

[2]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/Y8cQJIMFAe7QT73/%40mom...