Problems using concurrent instances with "hide"

[PremiumUsername]

I used to have several instances of i3status-rust being activated concurrently in order to create three rows. It worked brilliantly for a long time.
my sway config looked like:

# middle notification bar
bar {
    id bar-1
    mode hide
    hidden_state hide
    binding_mode_indicator no
    modifier Mod1
    font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono, FontAwesome 15
    height 30
    gaps 30 0
    position bottom
    status_command i3status-rs --never-pause /home/david/.config/i3status-rust/middle.toml
...

Now, all of a sudden, it doesn't work. At first when I restart sway I can see all three rows but after a couple of hide-show activations the bars stops activating until there is only one bar left. It also seems to be a random bar that survives. If I use the dock mode, it seems to be working with no problem with all three rows. I don't know if this a Sway problem or a i3status-rust problem (...or a me problem). I use sway 1.11. and i3status-rust 0.34.0.

[PremiumUsername]

I restored a snapshot and was able to determine that it is the package "wayland" (1.23.1-2 -> 1.24.0-1) that brakes the functionality, not any update to sway or i2status-rust. I'm guessing that means this is more of a sway problem then.