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I feel that you are so astute and aware (both self and situationally) to be able to make this observation about your child. Thanks for sharing. Indeed, timing is important
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Definitely related. I've got to pay attention to what it is about swim lessons that works so well for her and try to make other things more like that or just put her in more settings that have similar features.
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It does feel like so much of parenting is figuring out how to work with your child's personality.
Earlier today, I was working with my son on a little paper he had written. I asked him to rewrite one of the sentences because it was long and clunky. This made him quite grumpy.
At first, I just doubled down and repeated why I thought the sentence was confusing and told him he had to rewrite it. He resisted, and so we went, round and round.
Only later, thinking back on it, did I realize that the problem was that he had expected to move on to another subject and thought he was done with the paper. He wasn't resisting the concept so much as the timing. If I had told him he needed to rewrite it, but let him do the other subjects he wanted to do first, I think we wouldn't have had any trouble at all.
Finding the path that works with your kid's vision of the world makes things easier (this isn't quite the same as what you noticed with your daughter, but I think it's related).