There was an idea we discussed of "intent to revoke", but it ended up looking like a quite a bit of work for a small benefit, so the situation is as mholt descr

There was an idea we discussed of "intent to revoke", but it ended up looking like a quite a bit of work for a small benefit, so the situation is as mholt describes. :-) For this specific reason, Certbot is recommended to run twice per day, and that is the default behavior in OS Certbot packages as well as the more recent official snap package. Further to mholt's point, not all clients will enforce OCSP at all, while if you're using stapling, the client is being told about the last-valid OCSP response, so the outage would probably be a fairly small minority of clients in either case.