Shards handle StaleConfig exceptions indicating that the shard needs to recover its knowledge of the sharding metadata by triggering the recovery process on the ServiceEntryPoint. However, this is not happening for applyOps command.

This is because applyOps failure do not manifest neither as an exception bubbling up all the way to the ServiceEntryPoint, nor applyOps sets the OperationShardingState::setShardingOperationFailedStatus.