Since A doesn't have quorum, writes on the A side of the partition are impossible, and the data in B cannot go stale (but operations can continue through the ne

Since A doesn't have quorum, writes on the A side of the partition are impossible, and the data in B cannot go stale (but operations can continue through the new master in B). That's the essence of the CAP theorem's consistency-availability trade off. This assumes all reads and writes go through Raft.