#91241 stopped root-DM tables collapsing to bullets by keeping native
draft transport when rich_drafts is off. Private Telegram topics still
reject sendMessageDraft (string thread ids, forum-style thread fields),
so the stream consumer falls back to edit-in-place. Telegram then
rejects a rich edit of that plain MarkdownV2 preview and format_message
permanently rewrites pipe tables into bullet lists — the remaining
report after that merge.
Route drafts through the same integer topic kwargs as send(), and on
that degraded topic path prefer a fresh sendRichMessage (then delete
the preview) instead of the table-to-bullets formatter.
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