I was invited to an E2E DM room, and the other participant had already said some things. This rendered thus:

I'm guessing that in rendering the OLM.UNKNOWN_MESSAGE_INDEX error we probably know that there is no way we can recover the key from any of our other devices (is this true?). If this is the case, we might not want to expose the (in this case futile) E2E fudge button.