I’m also in the place where my main iOS account hasn’t seen any intercepts in a few days, but on my separate android account, where I only hit a handful of nodes a day, I’m seeing intercepts all the time.
I’m hesitant to dive into any conspiracy theories myself; bugs seem like the more likely culprit to me. Hopefully they’ll do something about it soon.
In my experience, I get the most Intercepts during my final push of a PVE sub, pretty much after every fight. But when you're trying to clear nodes as fast as possible, it's another time drain. All those 30 seconds add up, especially when you have less than 10 minutes left before the sub ends.
Then, when that sub is over and I'm grinding out the nodes in the next sub, they are almost nowhere to be seen, like 1 out of 15 fights if that.
So, they often show up when I don't want them, and don't when I do. Sure, I sometimes get them while doing DDQ nodes or Season Sim PVP, so it's not all bad.