BF-34424 is the same issue as BF-33727. SERVER-92067 tried to fix it by using RetryableWritesUtil.runCommandWithRetries to run listDatabases. This helper runs the command inside retryOnRetryableCode but it doesn't assert that the response is OK. So if the command doesn't hit a connection closed or network error and instead returned a non-OK response peacefully then no retries would be done.