YARP blocks for 0.25 seconds whenever a UDP receiver is interrupted. The reason of this delay is not clear, but it will not be changed as the effect of such change are unknown due to Hyrum's Law
In general it is not recommended to use a UDP carrier on a stream if there is no other reliable control stream
Switch the default carrier for two reasons (both detailed in https://github.com/robotology/yarp/issues/2814#issuecomment-1064943035):