Huh. TIL. I swear we searched the docs when we ran into that, and found the same consistency guarantee minus that rather large caveat, but Wayback says that was

Huh. TIL. I swear we searched the docs when we ran into that, and found the same consistency guarantee minus that rather large caveat, but Wayback says that was there at the time. Perhaps we were looking at a different page, but it does appear this is and was documented behavior. That's a hugely unuseful caveat in practice though. I'd really love to have consistent reads.