[HELP] Where can I find the definition of the WiFI autoReconnect interval?

When ESP is connected to a WiFi network, and it disconnects, it automatically attempts to reconnect to the network once every second. This severely affects loading time for a SoftAP web server, if active at that time.

My intention was to just disable this feature using "WiFi.setAutoReconnect(false);". This, unfortunately, has a bug where, when disabled, the WiFi.status() does not change from WL_CONNECTED, and WiFi.isConnected() does not change to false when a WiFi network disconnects.

Next up I tried to just increase the delay from 1 second to 10 seconds, which is where I'm at now.

I tried searching for parts of the debug message printed ("no WIFI_NETWORK_SSID found, reconnect after 1s"): "found, reconnect" and "reconnect after", in all the files in the library folder (C:\Users\current_user\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\hardware\esp8266\2.5.2\libraries) using the "Find in Files" function of Notepad++. I did not get any results from this.

My question is, where is the 1-second auto-reconnect interval defined? And, is there already some sort of function already in place for changing this interval value?