One thing I noticed was that there is some delay after publishing when using a fuzzy spec, where you seem to get an old version of an orb.
I mentioned this to support, but that was somewhat confusing at first; it would be really nice if there was some output when using an orb that says Using foo/bar@1.0.2
When using a fuzzy spec like foo/bar@1 or foo/bar@volatile
@wyardley might I suggest, if you are interested in the information being displayed in the build logs, that you file a Feature request through the Ideas portal - https://circleci.com/ideas/
That way it’s in the request queue, and other members of the community can up vote the request if they too would benefit.