Super annoying bug: Premiere Pro CC (and probably older versions) encoding/exporting window keeps stealing focus while working

This is something that has caused me to lose a lot of hair due to pulling it:
1. Open Premiere Pro on Windows (8.1, but that hardly matters, I think).
2. Open some video.
3. Export (encode) it to the desktop. The encoding/exporting child-window starts showing the progress bar as it works.
4. Click the bottom-right corner of the screen to show your desktop.
5. Now open any folder on the desktop, such as a dir called "test".
6. Does the Explorer window showing the "test" dir open, as expected? Nope! Instead, Premiere Pro goes: "HEY! What's up?! I'm gonna push myself in front of everything and show you this export/encoding child window as well as the main Premiere Pro window in front of everything! What do you think about that? Heh-heh! Whatever you tried to open is now in the background and I'm in the foreground!"
For the entire remainder of the encoding/exporting process, which can sometimes take hours, I am therefore crippled and cannot do any real work on my computer because Premiere Pro insists on force-showing itself against my will whenever I try to do anything else. This makes working with the computer while Premiere Pro is working (when I can't use the program anyway!) impossible. I'm left to Alt-tabbing around applications if I want to be able to do anything at all.
Without a doubt, I'm not the first person to be annoyed by this. In fact, I'm 99.99% sure that Adobe is well aware of this. Still, I have to make an attempt at reporting this, because it's crippled me every day for the last few years and made me really, really angry. I primarily associate Premiere Pro with frustration and anger at this point. I really hope there is a hidden preference to turn this madness off or something.
I predict that somebody will be tempted to respond with something along the lines of: "Use the Media Encoder!". Well, I don't like the Media Encoder. I want nothing to do with the Media Encoder. I just wanna use Premiere Pro and not have it steal focus against my explicit wishes.
Please tell me this is possible somehow. And please don't tell me to report this to Adobe with some form. I'm reporting it here and now, thanks. Plus, once again, I'm sure they know about this already. (If they don't, they aren't using their own software.)

I only asked two questions of you!!!
Both of them intended to get to a solution for you from understanding your workflow... .
Sheesh.
Don't understand why you put up with something that's made you go crazy"for years" and yet never mentioned by anyone else!
He's doing a Direct Export, not going through AME. That calls up a small dialog showing the progress of the export. Kind of like when you render.
I still don't know how that is done or how one even accesses a "direct export" option/menu.

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