Your story reminds me of learning to fry fish on a river trip. I kept poking at the fillets and they kept falling apart, then a guy named Walt told me to just leave them alone in the pan. Same lesson as your coffee. Good things happen when you quit messing with stuff and let it sit, whether it's grounds sinking in a kettle or fish getting crispy.

Did you check the bleed screws on the ABS unit itself or just the calipers? I fought a soft pedal on an old Ranger for a week before I found out the master cylinder had to be bench bled first, felt just as dumb when it worked.

Heard about a buddy who chopped a broken limb off his pecan tree in August, skipped the sealer entirely, and it rotted out within a year. So yeah, quick sealing seems way more important than the calendar to me.