`refetch({}, "network-only")` suspends, even when inside `startTransition`
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`refetch({}, "network-only")` always causes React to suspend, even when inside `startTransition`. This is annoying, specially when rendering lists with `usePaginationFragment`, where you would want to show the existing items, while re-fetching the new ones, and not jump to a suspend boundary. Furthermore, I think the difference in behavior for different `FetchPolicy`s is not that intuitive for a beginner. And `loadNext`, for example, will never suspend. I think everything that makes a network request should suspend, to avoid these confusions, and the user should be able to opt out of it with `startTransition`. This was the approach Apollo took (https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/10676).
I realize this might be too dramatic of a change, but at least we should be able to use `startTransition` to prevent `refetch` from suspending.
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