Mid-turn assistant text (between tool calls) frequently not rendered in terminal (v2.1.246, WSL2)

Environment: Claude Code 2.1.246, WSL2 (Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2), bash, interactive terminal session.

Behavior: When the assistant emits a text block between tool calls within a single turn (e.g. posts a drafted deliverable, then continues with more tool calls), that text is frequently not rendered in the terminal at all. Later assistant output then references the content ("the draft above", "as posted") that the user never saw, and the user has to interrupt the turn and ask for it explicitly.

Frequency/regression: Observed repeatedly across sessions today (2026-08-25) by the same user; it was not this frequent before, suggesting a recent regression in how mid-turn text blocks are coalesced/flushed. (The docs do caveat that mid-turn text may not be shown — this report is about the apparent regression in frequency, which makes multi-tool turns silently drop user-facing deliverables.)

Repro shape: long multi-tool turn → assistant emits a markdown deliverable as a text block mid-turn → assistant continues with further tool calls → the mid-turn block never appears in the transcript view; only the final post-tool text renders.

Impact: user-facing deliverables are silently lost; users must interrupt working turns to recover them.