I'm not sure if this is 100% true any more. I've found that when enabling the DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 env var that docker will sometimes eagerly re-fetch stale images

I'm not sure if this is 100% true any more. I've found that when enabling the DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 env var that docker will sometimes eagerly re-fetch stale images. I think your argument is generally still true, but was happy to see that some progress is being made on dealing with stale `latest`.