I think most critical phases you’d want to happen when the satellite is in direct contact with the ground stations (they probably make extensive use of relay satellites to maximize windows of telemetry/payload data transmission, but here we are talking about issuing critical command sequences). Those windows are not 8 hours long. Further, it apparently takes almost 30 days to travel to the L2 Lagrange point and not all systems deploy until then.

Edit: nope, I was wrong, it’s going to deploy a whole range of systems while on the way to the L2. https://youtu.be/RzGLKQ7_KZQ