So, this still allows your valuable zoned-in session to continue and also reminds you that it is time for a break. Taking breaks increases your productivity, in overall, across time. Mainly because you save yourself from the huge dips of exhaustion caused by pushing your organism over its limit. Your body will strike back, believe me.
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I prefer to zone in for 3-18 hours then rest the day after.
Been doing this for 12 years and I'm healthy (according to my doctor).
It's not manual labor, it's not that strenuous on the body. I filter the blue light to help eye strain and stretch when I feel like it.
That is an interesting approach and you might actually be an outlier. However, in a generic context, the idea is that someone needs to take breaks to minimize the risk of exhaustion and other medical problems and it does make a difference in someone's overall productivity when they do not push themselves too much. So, to answer your original question "why would someone want to interrupt their workflow" the answer is: In general, even if someone loses a few of their valuable zoned-in epiphanies, they gain an overall well-being and retain their health, which makes them be productive all year-round.
Its not only that. Thare are number of real medical issues - spine problems, RSI, eye strain etc.