Yes! … or changing to almost the same value (just bouncing by an irrelevant amount).
We had a discussion here how to debounce number channels to keep the overall processing overhead low (see: [profiles] Proposing debouncing profile · Issue #2172 · openhab/openhab-core · GitHub)
So I’m after some way to tame the event generation quite early in the the processing.
I guess, the link profile concept is a valid point to tackle such issues if the binding itself or the actual device (e.g. a sensor generation quick updates) does not provide a mechanism to reduce the event rate …