Have you read the most recent post by dirvine in Discord:
“I suspect the quorum might be causing issues with both pointers and scratch pads. If one node has got the latest copy of a pointer or scratchpad, but no others have it, it won’t meet that quorum figure. It won’t be returned to the user, which is mental.
This is a definite bug that could and would give us issues with both of those types. It would also mean that replication of those types is being hampered somehow, and in fact, the KAD layer through the replication quorum may be trying to replicate older data and not the newer data because there’s a quorum number of older data. Even though our nodes internally, in node internal logic, should be preferring the newer data. This quorum vs CRDT is likely an issue that we have to resolve.”