Are automatic node downgrades expected?

This behavious matches with what I explained here (Current rollout may lead to unexpected downgrades), and as BrightSilence pointed out here as well. As the minimum version pointer is 1.99.3 and the last rollout upgraded all nodes to 1.101.3, any container recreations (or stack updates) might result in downgrading to 1.99.3 (or if you are lucky ugprade to 1.102.3 if it has rolled out to that specific node)