Recent showcmd change?

I noticed that since around 8.1.1561 (or was it 1651?), showcmd would start showing one-off cursor movements (hjklwbe, etc.) in normal mode, very briefly. It's barely noticeable in gvim, more noticeable when sending the keystrokes over a slow connection (eg., remote SSH) — annoying, then, in fact. Yes, I know it is bad form to hold down those keys, but still, I didn't notice Vim doing that before recently.

I then noticed that the help says that showcmd is enabled by default in Vim (not sure when that change was made), but when I run `vim -Nu NONE`, `:verbose set showcmd?` shows "noshowcmd". `:scriptnames` confirms no files were loaded, and `:compatible` shows "nocompatible". Am I misunderstanding something there?

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