There are gaps between polling requests for new clients

I noticed that the request to the broker lasts for 10 seconds (if there are no available clients) and then finishes with "no clients" response, but the extension doesn't make a new request right away and waits for (I think) a minute or so. Which to me sounds bad. Practically we can't get a new client during that gap. Is there a reason for this? Should we change this? Also I noticed that sometimes there is a delay when connecting to Tor using a Snowflake bridge. Could this be related to this?