Following on from sarah_TO — and this may be the naive question:

What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?

anders_CPH said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

I read this differently from anders_CPH, on substance rather than tone. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

anders_CPH said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.

anders_CPH said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion.

Reporting back.

Update: the thing I was blaming turned out not to be the cause. Leaving the original post as written rather than editing it, so the mistake stays visible for whoever searches this next.