This assertion passed twice and failed once on nothing but timing, which is the
worst kind of green: it says the mechanism works when what it measured was the
clock.
`status` cannot stand in for the wait either. A machine that has not applied
yet is not a machine that failed — "not yet" and "never" look identical there,
and only one of them is worth failing over. So it waits for the thing itself,
and says on failure that the machine did apply, which is what separates "the
mesh still thinks this contributes" from "nothing was sent".
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