What do you mean by "from what I can tell" ?
Have you actually experienced this issue or just making it up ?
Have you actually experienced this issue or just making it up ?
Imagine two nodes, both initiating updates to the same row. One has observed a number of node additions and deletions. The other has not. They will perform their updates on disjoint sets.
Additions to the ring are not atomic, therefore quorums aren't.