IIRC ->data was added when we were trying to make it easier for people to
fix circular references in nonblocking code, I only used it a few times. It
can almost always be replaced by making a my $data = {}; before creating
the delay and then using $data->{...} rather than $delay->data->{...}.
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> When retrieving the starting point data from a back end it sometimes
> includes references to other objects.
> We keep most of the response data around in the "data" attribute of the
> delay and start harvesting the referenced data, which we need to have
> around before continuing to the o
