Changing frequency to daily doesn't change the sitemap view to daily

It is odd that there is a "Default change frequency" option under a content type, yet it doesn't do anything. Setting it to "Daily" ought to do that ...

In my opinion this should be raised to "Major", since having a wrong "Yearly" value may cause those pages to get ignore, and not get crawled.

And in essence, that is the whole point of this module -- getting pages crawled.

> Q: But I note that it also seems to be related to the 'last updated' date for the entity in question.
> [...]
> A: Right now, the entity changefreq values are always automatically calculated based on the time between revisions, there is no ability to set a specific changefreq for these items.

This won't work, if data displayed on the node page is pulled in via a view -- the content is actually changing on a regular basis, but to Drupal, it just looks like a stale node.

i am not sure it is a bug as it seem to be wanted in code:
xmlsitemap.module

/**
 * Determine the frequency of updates to a link.
 *
 * @param int $interval
 *   An interval value in seconds.
 *
 * @return string|\Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslatableMarkup
 *   A string representing the update frequency according to the sitemaps.org
 *   protocol.
 */
function xmlsitemap_get_changefreq($interval, bool $translated = FALSE) {
  if ($interval <= 0 || !is_numeric($interval)) {
    return FALSE;
  }

  foreach (xmlsitemap_get_changefreq_options() as $value => $frequency) {
    if ($interval <= $value) {
      return $translated ? $frequency : $frequency->getUntranslatedString();
    }
  }

  return $translated ? t('never', [], ['context' => 'At no time']) : 'never';
}

src/XmlSitemapGenerator.php

      if ($link['lastmod']) {
        $element['lastmod'] = gmdate($lastmod_format, $link['lastmod']);
        // If the link has a lastmod value, update the changefreq so that links
        // with a short changefreq but updated two years ago show decay.
        // We use abs() here just incase items were created on this same cron
        // run because lastmod would be greater than the request time.
        $link['changefreq'] = (abs($this->time->getRequestTime() - $link['lastmod']) + $link['changefreq']) / 2;
      }
      if ($link['changefreq']) {
        $element['changefreq'] = xmlsitemap_get_changefreq($link['changefreq']);
      }

but i agree that the setting is confusing and for my usage i change the $link['lastmod'] as a workaround in a custom function
xmlsitemap_link_alter(&$link) for view pages or other pages with computed fields too get the good changefreq.

You're right. Technically, it works as designed, but the way it works is not ideal.

Let's change the Status to be more precise.