Apparently it's caused by a bug with OS-specific code to check the last time a message asking for donations to the project was printed, so it doesn't ask too much. And this checking only happens on mondays for some reason... There's literally a "if (now.getDay() === MONDAY)".
Link to the Webpack issue: https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/962
Apparently it's caused by a bug with OS-specific code to check the last time a message asking for donations to the project was printed, so it doesn't ask too much. And this checking only happens on mondays for some reason... There's literally a "if (now.getDay() === MONDAY)".