A 400 KB autoloaded option fixed in 2023, and a different plugin doing the same thing in 2025.
SELECT option_name, LENGTH(option_value) AS bytes
FROM wp_options WHERE autoload IN ('yes', 'on')
ORDER BY bytes DESC LIMIT 5;
another_plugin_cache 288,104
td_feature_flags 12,208
theme_mods_turkerdev 14,208
-- total autoloaded: 341 KB, on every request
The same shape as 2023 with a different plugin, which is what happens when a fix is applied to an instance rather than to a process. The monthly query is now a scheduled check that fails above 200 KB total, which is the only thing that turns this from a recurring discovery into a bounded problem.