I wanted to follow up on this and share with the community. I appreciate your reply and help.
I made it as far as step 2.
It seems I had KSOS set to update on startup with a 20 minute delay. Thus every time I start the computer and there is a update waiting, I get notified about it.
I set the update schedule to every 3 hours and disabled the focused work mode or whatever it is. Not a problem since.
It is worth noting that much of the KSOS interface referenced in the General Recommendations for... document is out of date and some of the feature names have changed. Gaming mode for example seems to be called focused work mode.