[Bug]: "Updating 'ide.json' meta information" on every startup

[hackel]

Bug description

Every time I start PhpStorm, I see "Updating 'ide.json' meta information" in the status bar. Is this by design? Upon clicking, I see all the running processes:

• Updating 'ide.json' meta information
• Fetching Laravel Project Metadata
• Analyzing project to enable smart features (scans every file, including /vendor directory)

This takes ~2.5 minutes for my project on every startup. This happens even if I remove my idea.json entirely. This metadata that is being scanned must be different from what is collected when running "Generate Helper Code", which I've already done, and which only takes 10-15 seconds. Is there a reason this metadata cannot be cached?

Plugin version

13.1.2.261

Operating system

Linux

Steps to reproduce

Launch PhpStorm with Laravel Idea installed and enabled.

Relevant log output

[adelf]

Updating 'ide.json' meta information
Fetching Laravel Project Metadata

These two actions just wait until "Analyzing project to enable smart features" is finished. They do nothing at this moment.

"Analyzing project" is indexing. Yes, it might take a lot of time for big projects. However, it shouldn't happen at each startup... It's probably a PhpStorm bug.