You're welcome.
It really hasn't been that much of a hassle for me, on a laptop I don't often restart the system. And in this case I hardly noticed (excuse the pun) change in the windows notification to indicate a notification.
As far as Avast Notifications settings go, I have the Pop-up Notifications Treatment set to Limited. So I don't get that much in the way of hassle and no way I would switch to Defender over this, but I have only been using Avast for 20 years.