numberOfApiCallRetries blocks middleware

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I'm not sure if this is documented somewhere. If it is it's very well hidden.

I went down a massive rabbit hole of trying to get middleware working. After tracing down 100s of lines of code across 5 files I tested playing around with the config values and found that the option, numberOfApiCallRetries, when added to the config causes middleware to not work, at all.

I also tried with the limiterOptions but there's no problem there.

This is related to the same problem reported here #671 last year, just that the OP is not using that retries option.

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Ok I didn't test this properly and I got the same result.

I'm going to do a full, deep test today on where the middleware is getting lost and post the result here. I can't believe so few people use that feature.