DrawHoverSheen measured its own elapsed time against DateTime.UtcNow and gave
up after 0.65s, so a row stopped reacting while the pointer was still on it.
There was no held value to interpolate colours against.
HoverState keeps one 0..1 intensity per element, rising at 14/s and falling at
8/s. Slower out than in is what makes the fade read as deliberate.
Query and advance are separate on purpose. Several SelfTest steps call
Sidebar.Draw against the live tab list, so the same element gets submitted up
to three times in one frame, twice from a window the mouse is not over. If the
query advanced the value, the last caller would win and the fade would run
backwards. Query only ORs the hover flag; BeginFrame does all the moving and
the eviction.
BeginFrame sits above the HideInLoadingScreens and New Game+ early returns, so
a hidden main window still lets pop-out hovers fade out instead of freezing
mid-blend.
FrameLerp gains Ramp: Smooth approaches asymptotically and never arrives, so a
value driven by it would never reach zero and never become evictable.
ReduceMotion short-circuits before the map is touched, returning a hard 0 or 1.
An infinite rate would produce NaN and poison the entry for the session.
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