Yeah this is exactly it.

That feeling where you know the conversation was "in sync" a few turns back, and now it isn’t, but there’s no clean way to get back to that point.

I have been wondering if the problem is that we are treating everything as one continuous thread, when in reality there are these discrete “states” where the reasoning is still consistent.

If you could capture those states and return to them cleanly, instead of continuing from wherever things drifted, it might actually change how these workflows feel.

This is actually what pushed me to start working on something around this:
https://github.com/himanshudongre/smriti