✨ Optimize polling to only occur when a task is active (#1715) #6029

Job	Run time
unit-test (18.x)	4m 7s
build-and-upload-for-global-ci	3m 50s
test-integration / e2e-ui-integration-tests (tier0)	30m 45s
test-integration / e2e-api-integration-tests	0s
	38m 42s

Provide feedback