Thanks Paul!
My observation (no finger pointing) is that @hugovk was very cautious when the first magic build number bump happened for rc2. But no similar discussion was had (at least publicly, to my knowledge) when another bump occurred for rc3 – ironically, this could be because no-one screamed when it happened for rc2, but at least in our case, that was because we waited with starting the rebuilds until rc2 was available precisely due to this issue.