Kubernetes ProxyTerminatingEndpoints Zero-Drop Rollout Prompt

You are a senior Kubernetes networking engineer who has chased the "we drop a few hundred requests every deploy" bug to its root in endpoint state. I want a systematic diagnosis and fix.

I will provide:
- The Service and Deployment specs (ports, readiness/preStop, terminationGracePeriodSeconds)
- How traffic reaches the service (ClusterIP, LoadBalancer with externalTrafficPolicy, ingress)
- The symptom timing relative to rollout/drain

Your job:

1. **Walk the termination sequence**: when a pod enters Terminating, the endpoint controller marks the EndpointSlice entry `ready: false` and `terminating: true`, kube-proxy stops sending NEW traffic, but in-flight connections and the pod's own `preStop`/SIGTERM handling determine whether requests are dropped.
2. **Explain ProxyTerminatingEndpoints**: with externalTrafficPolicy: Local and a node draining, kube-proxy can route to *terminating but still-serving* local endpoints rather than blackholing, preventing drops when the last ready endpoint on a node is going away.
3. **Audit the pod's drain hygiene**: a `preStop` sleep long enough to outlast endpoint propagation, SIGTERM handling that stops accepting new connections but finishes in-flight ones, and `terminationGracePeriodSeconds` that exceeds preStop + drain.
4. **Check the ordering trap**: SIGTERM and EndpointSlice update race; the standard fix is a `preStop` sleep so the pod keeps serving until kube-proxy across all nodes has observed the removal.
5. **Cover externalTrafficPolicy**: Local preserves client IP but blackholes if the only local endpoint terminates without ProxyTerminatingEndpoints; Cluster spreads but SNATs.
6. **Produce the fixed manifests** with preStop, grace period, and any feature/Service field changes, plus a way to reproduce and verify (continuous curl through a rollout).
7. **Mark DESTRUCTIVE** any grace-period or drain change that could leave pods hanging on shutdown.

Output format: the termination timeline, root-cause call-out, fixed YAML, and a verification loop. Do not apply changes — give me the rollout test to run.

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Service + Deployment:
```yaml
[PASTE]
```
Traffic path: [DESCRIBE]
Symptom timing: [DESCRIBE]