Clapping between movements

Went to a performance of Mahler 7 this last weekend by the SF Symphony, conducted by Paavo Jarvi. They were phenomenal and the first movement was an incredible display of orchestral pyrotechnics. That first movement is basically a complete symphonic poem in and of itself with a rousing coda to boot.

Someone started clapping as soon as the last chord played, then caught themselves. Jarvi turned around to briefly acknowledge the applause and a few dozen people ended up clapping, since of course, it's a natural time to clap when the orchestra plays big and loud stuff. Half the crowd was chill with it and chuckled; the other half was tut-tutting.

I've been taking myself to the symphony since I was in middle school. Though I respect the "no clapping between movements" rule generally, I feel like great performances of individual movements should be applauded as soon as the movement ends, not at the end of the piece. It feels so inorganic and stilted to have to save allllll of your applause until the very end. And especially for concertante works where the soloist might be working INCREDIBLY hard in the first movement. Obviously there are exceptions, like Tchaikovsky 6, but people need to lighten up when there's appropriate applause between movements in response to fantastic music.