Spyder Variable Explorer: forcing automatic refresh after code edits without manual cache clearing

I'm working in Spyder (5.x, IPython console backend) and rely heavily on the Variable Explorer to inspect DataFrames and lists while iterating on a script. My understanding is that the Variable Explorer keeps a persistent cache of object representations, so when I mutate a variable in the editor and re-run a cell, the pane keeps showing the old value until I press the Refresh button or use "Clear Cached Data".

I've checked the preferences under Tools > Preferences > Variable Explorer, but I only see options for filtering and display formatting, nothing that ties a refresh to code execution. I also can't find a per-variable or per-session setting that would mark certain objects as "always live" so they're re-evaluated after each run.

My constraints: I want to avoid the performance hit of re-evaluating every large object on each execution, so a blanket auto-refresh of all variables isn't ideal. Ideally only variables I explicitly mark, or only variables below a size threshold, would update automatically.

Is there any supported configuration, plugin hook, or console-side setting in Spyder 5.x that enables selective or threshold-based automatic refresh of the Variable Explorer? If not, is the manual Refresh / "Clear Cached Data" workflow the only intended mechanism, and is this documented as a deliberate design decision?