Tag v0.16.44 pushed to origin; the npm-publish workflow published from the tag. Read back from the registry rather than inferred from a successful push:

    {"published": true, "version_seen": "0.16.44", "latest_seen": "0.16.44"}

npm view prd-plugin version also returns 0.16.44, and dist-tags latest moved from 0.16.43 to 0.16.44.