Unneccesary gray autostart screen

Hey there,

I have Discord on autostart on my PC and honestly, it gets a little annoying.

That is, because upon starting my PC and logging in, after 10s Discord will open a fullscreen gray window with no content on it. It stays onscreen for about 20s and then disappears.
Occasionally there is an update, but most times not. I can't wrap my head around why it should be necessary to overlay already opened programs just to do… well, nothing.

While this is no bug or major flaw, it really disrupts the usual workflow when starting a PC. I think Discord has a great interest in not wasting their users' time, so I would be happy if somebody could give a possible explanation for the necessity of this.

Thanks