We're speaking of 1.17 right?

It's pretty a consistent experience, like the common dayz player can get used to the action that becomes available, requiring a twice left click to start.
(Like for ex, you finish harvesting a long stick from a bush, you slide it from Vicinity to hands, and as soon as it appears in hands, you left click. Even though the prompt offers the option, it doesn't register, requiring yet another left click, even though the option of splitting to sticks has been there for already by now about 15 seconds or so maybe a bit less.)

Pretty common indeed for many actions to sometimes require another click.

desync or not? who knows

In T165048#2313017, @alexsys wrote:

We're speaking of 1.17 right?

It's pretty a consistent experience, like the common dayz player can get used to the action that becomes available, requiring a twice left click to start.
(Like for ex, you finish harvesting a long stick from a bush, you slide it from Vicinity to hands, and as soon as it appears in hands, you left click. Even though the prompt offers the option, it doesn't register, requiring yet another left click, even though the option of splitting to sticks has been there for already by now about 15 seconds or so maybe a bit less.)

Pretty common indeed for many actions to sometimes require another click.

desync or not? who knows

This has been happening for a quite a while - much earlier than 1.17. I just haven't decided to log the issue until now.
It applies to so many different types of items, but is very consistently present with wringing of wet clothes.
I suspect it is an issue with the network code involved with inventory, as that has always been very slow (as the game slows down whenever you get near players to load their inventory), but the inventory code has been particularly buggy lately it seems, given how easy it is for one's inventory to get bugged (i.e. stuck) during / after a firefight.