UIScrollable.getChildByDescription - reload data while executed scrollToBeginning in the method

When UIScrollable.getChildByDescription starts working, first it does scrollToBeginning (which provokes updating of the list if the list is at the beginning), and only then it scrolls down and finds the desired element. How can I disable updating the list if the list is already at the beginning?

scrollToBeginning:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/testing/+/f612e6a05f47b28ae0f5715545658c08dd759dd7/uiautomator/library/src/com/android/uiautomator/core/UiScrollable.java#210

The issue points to UiScrollable.java in the linked Android framework source and names getChildByDescription and scrollToBeginning. Read scrollToBeginning first, then trace its call from getChildByDescription; done means an already-beginning list is not reloaded before the target element is searched.

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