IIUC,
https://go.dev/cl/747663 is no longer sufficient because even though it fixes most mips builds, it breaks on Synology devices? I guess that is better than the status quo, but not great.
I agree that this won't make 1.26.1. As a rule of thumb, if a cherry pick isn't approved by Friday on the week before a minor release, then it's safe to say it won't make it into the release.
That said, it does feel like we need some mechanism to make sure that cherry picks waiting on upstream CL review actually get looked at.