The floating pill worked but sat in the wrong place and at the wrong scale: top
right of the pane, far from the content it describes, 30px tall with 12px text
against a row of 27px chips at 11.5px.
The stat chips are gated on `!page.art_preview` -- they do not exist yet while
the page resolves. So the status simply takes their slot and hands the row over
when they arrive: same container, same `.chip` metrics, with only a spinning
accent ring and a softer label colour of its own. Measured across the handover,
the status chip and the first real chip occupy the identical box (x 230, y 1145,
height 27), and neither the row top nor the play button moves.
That also keeps the property the floating version was chosen for. Nothing
reflows when the status goes, because it is the only thing in the row and the
chips that replace it start at the same origin -- no absolute positioning, no
z-index fight with the sticky .results-head, and no element parked outside the
layout it belongs to.
KeelrLeek
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