Agreed. It has changed. Its twice as often as it used to be. And as usual, LC forgot to notify us of this change.
Darn it tho, its not on a fixed schedule. My guess is that instead of updating on a fixed schedule, at the end of the processing work, they set a timer which says "Wait 2.5 minutes, then do it again." The result is that the gap between is always a little more than 2.5 minutes, but not predictable. Not predictable means you have to poll.