diff --git a/internal/delivery/engine.go b/internal/delivery/engine.go
index a9d06f2..4786f08 100644
--- a/internal/delivery/engine.go
+++ b/internal/delivery/engine.go
@@ -368,9 +368,9 @@ func (e *Engine) start() {
 // writer for long by then: the archive sweeper stops before the
 // engine, and deleting a webhook only closes one. If the pool did
 // not drain in time, the writers are left open, as a kill would
-// leave them: a worker still running may be mid-write, and
-// closing its writer would wait on that write and then fail the
-// next delivery the worker archives.
+// leave them. Closing them would wait for any write in progress,
+// and a worker still running would then open new writers that
+// nothing closes, so it gains nothing over a kill.
 func (e *Engine) stop(ctx context.Context) error {
 	e.log.Info("delivery engine stopping")
 
diff --git a/internal/delivery/engine_lifecycle_test.go b/internal/delivery/engine_lifecycle_test.go
index ae1afa5..9fadf9d 100644
--- a/internal/delivery/engine_lifecycle_test.go
+++ b/internal/delivery/engine_lifecycle_test.go
@@ -327,10 +327,10 @@ func TestEngine_StopHookClosesArchives(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // TestEngine_StopHookTimeoutLeavesArchivesOpen covers a stop whose
-// budget runs out while a worker is still running. That worker may
-// be in the middle of an archive write, so the archive writers are
-// left open, as a kill would leave them, rather than closed
-// underneath it.
+// budget runs out while a worker is still running. The archive
+// writers are left open, as a kill would leave them: closing them
+// would wait for any write in progress, and that worker would then
+// open new writers that nothing closes.
 func TestEngine_StopHookTimeoutLeavesArchivesOpen(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()