Alerter processes left running if user refuses permission

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In macOS 10.15.7, an Alerter process stays running if the user refuses permission for Alerter to send notifications. Same if user chooses "None" in notification style. I have found a large number of Alerter processes running which have to be killed in Activity Monitor (or I guess by logging off).

Can Alerter be updated so that it kills its own process when user refuses permission ? It does that if the notification is displayed but not if the Notification is not displayed.

Thanks.

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This issue can be worked around by using the timeout option. So, if user has turned off notifications, the Alerter process will exit after the timeout is reached. But, it would be nice not to need a workaround.