cy.wait against cy.request - why?

[saadlu]

This learning section on "Explicit Wait"

https://learn.cypress.io/cypress-fundamentals/waiting-and-retry-ability#explicit-waits

has an example that cy.waits on a cy.request call. I am not sure I understand the example. Wouldn't cy.request automatically wait for the response? before reaching the test body?

Given that the POST call does not have a body, and given the intend, it seems to me that it might have been a typo. May be the example meant cy.intercept?

I have also checked https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app example and noted that

https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app/blob/4088a087679d7f906b1ccca874256eccbca48822/cypress/tests/ui/auth.spec.ts#L10

has a similar example in its entirety but making use of cy.intercept instead.