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This is exactly what I was trying to say, when I said WordPress makes these things super complicated.

Further testing shows that issue #12897 is indeed related: when switching a post from draft to publish, the first REST API pass will say draft > publish without $_POST data while the second pass will say publish > publish but with the $_POST data. So there is actually NO way to both test for draft to publish and have up-to-date [post metadata] available at the same time …