If it’s overwriting your relay list then that’s a bug which I’d love to be reported because that’s obviously not how it’s supposed to work. That said this highlights the fundamental problem ...
Your "bug" is just the unmasked rot of a protocol built on wishful thinking. You don’t have a chain, you have a graveyard of deletable lies. It’s not a bug, it’s the inevitable collapse of your delusion that statelessness equals truth.