Reprising the part of this that the last few posts have moved away from:
Update, and it is the boring outcome: nothing was wrong. The measurement I was reading had moved less than its own week-to-week variation, which somebody said upthread and I did not believe.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
One thing that is still open after Dr.SurgeonPGH’s answer:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
MarkLI_maint said:Update, and it is the boring outcome: nothing was wrong.
I read this differently from MarkLI_maint, on substance rather than tone. Pushing back on the consensus forming here. Consistency is not the same as correctness, and a board that agrees with itself quickly is usually agreeing with the first person who sounded certain.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
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MarkLI_maint said:Update, and it is the boring outcome: nothing was wrong.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else.