When configuring eg process_new_segments_from = "segment_creation_time" and you create a segment on December 12th 2021, then we're not supposed to archive any data before that.

The cron archive logic respects that. However, it seems that when it starts processing the week, month and year then it will archive for example all the days from Dec 1st - Dec 12th as part of the month archive and all the previous days from Jan 1st to end November as part of the year archive. This means there's more archiving than it should be happening and because it would be trying to archive hundreds of days as part of the year archive it would likely eventually also run into memory issues etc.

Goal would be to not launch the archiver for example here: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/blob/4.2.1/core/Archive.php#L560-L563 and/or here https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/blob/4.2.1/plugins/CoreAdminHome/API.php#L257 or somewhere else when it is trying to archive a day that is not supposed to be archived based on above config setting.