A plugin.reload no longer freezes the panel during Vegas: the old instance is torn down and the new one loaded off the render thread (frame gap 3017 ms -> 9 ms in the ledpi reproduction). A failed or timed-out teardown stops the reload with a restart hint instead of loading over stale modules or tearing down an instance still in use.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
