On my team, we've had some confusion lately about the behavior of useQuery and how the fetchPolicy parameter influences it. Looking back through the Apollo documentation, I think it just doesn't do a very good job of explaining some of these subtleties, but the behavior itself is logical once you have the right mental model of what the hook is supposed to do.
Some of the confusion around useQuery's behavior comes from thinking of it as an operation, something that you call to execute a specific query. But this isn't the right way to think about it - instead, you should think of it as a way to tell Apollo that a particular instance of a component is associated with a particular query. Apollo will, of course, fetch the query data and provide the results to the component, but the timing and frequency of the actual fetch depends on the lifecycle of the component, not on the number of times useQuery is called during render passes.
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