I think I have a plan. I made great progress in documenting #iocaine3, a couple of footguns fell out, and I fixed them.
What if I made a release candidate? Not today, but on the 23rd, when I originally planned to release 3.0. At this point, any changes on main will be bugfixes and polishing, some documentation exists, so 3.0.0-rc1 sounds about right.