The input area carried a chip with the queue's own count next to the
per-message "queued" mark. Two views of one queue disagreed more than they
helped, and the count said nothing the transcript did not: the chip, its
i18n keys and the store state behind it (queuedMessages, queuedCount) are
gone. message_queued still lands in the store — it drops the "sending" hint —
but nothing is counted.

The badge on a queued message took --gn-color-accent (#FF9E64). On the user's
blue bubble, already faded to 0.75 while queued, that measured ~1.9:1 and read
as a warning sign. It is now the palette's grey (#414868): muted, legible on
that blue, and clearly secondary to the message text — the darker neutrals
look like the message itself.