My fix for a data-loss bug sat in a green PR for four days. Every install in that window still had the bug.

On July 17 I opened the most serious issue my project has ever had, wrote the fix the same morning, and pushed it as a pull request. CI went green on Node 20, 22 and 24 within minutes. Zero review comments. mergeStateStatus: CLEAN.

Then it sat there.

I merged it today — July 21. Four days.

For those four days the fix existed, was correct, was tested, and was visible to nobody. Every npx safari-mcp in that window installed the version with the bug. The npm counter says roughly 1,400 people a week pull this thing. The fix was done and the users still had the bug, and those two facts sat side by side without touching each other.

I want to be precise about why, because the interesting part isn't "I was busy."