Security settings were changed automatically somehow.

Short-time user (2 months).  Everything was smooth until yesterday. 

All of a sudden, 1Password started asking me to enter my master password every time I started Edge (W11).  Previously, it would only ask at long intervals (per the settings I had selected when I installed it).  

I looked, and many of my security settings had been changed to require this, including a setting to use Windows Hello, which (for several reasons), I never use (and cannot use).  

I put the settings back the way they were, but I need to understand how and why this can happen.  If it's a result of a Windows update, I need to have a way to prevent it in the future.  If it's a result of a 1Password update, I need to understand why the developers felt it appropriate to do so.  

Thanks.