i don’t know about any anti-censorship laws, but Turkey is famous for their censorship laws https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey
and there is no OOF Thief as well, since they have a special place in hell
they’re probably patching a security flaw, because we live in the future now and it is perfectly normal for a simple clock to have backdoors that can read your bank accounts
i think as a stability measure the dev grouped some of the level-ups as these sort of chunks (if you quit and return it even resumes), because formerly if you were to level up too quickly game would crash (at least on my device) and your progress since the last start would be lost. however it takes hours especially on higher levels