We don't set the LevelDB snapshot option for database_->Get(), so rather than reading from a snapshot created at the time that db.get() was called, it will read from an implicit snapshot (i.e. latest state) at the time the async worker runs:

For comparison, see db.getMany() where we do set the snapshot option:

This may have been the case for a long time and I've personally not found this to be a problem in real-world apps. Putting this in the backlog until there are upvotes.