Fast-foward occassionally hangs on block production

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Describe the bug
Using https://github.com/andrew-sol/workspaces-reproduction
Running tests sometimes is ok but usually hangs during block production when calling fast-forward. In the example it hangs at the parent height of 1998 which is reproducible.

During block production for target height 1998, it's approval inner value is a ApprovalInner::Skip(..). In the subsequent iterations the parent height is not updated and stuck at 1998 while its target height changes.

To Reproduce
Use worksaces-reproduction which uses workspaces-rs v0.7.0. The repo also offers run.sh to execute the tests.

Expected behavior
On a successful run, the error: FunctionCallError(ExecutionError("Smart contract panicked: Not enough balance to withdraw")) is expected after the fast-forward bit was successful.

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Version (please complete the following information):

• nearcore: @1.35.0
• rust version: rustc 1.73.0 (cc66ad468 2023-10-03)
• sandbox build
• sytem: macOS

Additional context
The issue was originally created here: near/near-workspaces-rs#266