chore: improve timeouts, recovery handling and errors

[djelinek]

Before submitting your PR, please review the following checklist:

• CONSIDER adding a new test if your PR resolves an issue.
• DO keep pull requests small so they can be easily reviewed.
• DO make sure tests pass.
• DO make sure any public APIs changes are documented.
• DO make sure not to introduce any compiler warnings.

Before merging the PR:

• CHECK continuous integration of main branch is green.
• CHECK pull request check job is green.
• CHECK all pull request questions/requests are resolved.
• WAIT till PR is approved by at least 1 committer.

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
6 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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