I'm a little bit confused by the wording "This happens transparently to the user," I assume they mean that the user is unaware of this workaround? Or do they mean it's obvious how it works (transparent) to the user?
In this context, it means "this workaround happens without the user having to perform any additional steps"; not necessarily that they're unaware, but that it happens without their involvement and it doesn't seem that it's any different from the surface-level.
It's an old software thing! "Transparent to the user" means "without the user knowing". Strange, right? I prefer "hidden from" to "transparent to" but I definitely use the latter a lot and it's quite clearly wrong!
