Given the model:

container foo {
    leaf bar {
        type string;
    }
}

performing the following operations:

tx.delete(foo);
tx.write(foo/bar, value);

will not result in the leaf being present. This seems to be operation merging bug coming from automatic container lifecycle: previously this stacking would not have been allowed, as the parent does not exist.

With automatic lifecycle, though, the container is transiently created and therefore this stacking is completely valid – performing these operations in two separate transactions produces a result where bar is present.