I think it might be because recruiters will think you've been getting used to doing just your hobbies for the time that you had a gap that it'll take you a while to "get back into the game" of the daily work grind.
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So what?
A coworker just came back from 10 weeks of paternity leave today. He mentioned it felt like he had to 'remember how to code again'.
By that logic, the company should fire him because it's going to take him a while to 'get back into the game' of the daily work grind, right?
But it's not going to be that bad, and we don't have anything so pressing he couldn't take even a few weeks to "get back in the groove" for all that matters for our department. We somehow managed fine without him for 10 weeks, he can take his time to get back into the swing of things.
And even if we did have pressing things, that's more on the company and not him. Probably means they should be hiring more than just that one person, and should have hired earlier so they have the chance to get used to things (there's always a ramp up of learning for every job anyway, for pretty much everyone).
Not accusing you of thinking that way, btw, you did say specifically that recruiters might think that, just challenging the thought process of those recruiters.