This was two years ago:

You’re correct, the routing mesh does not behave in quite the way described by the docs. We’re working on evolving away from the global backlog concept in order to provide better support for different concurrency models, and the docs are no longer accurate. The current behavior is not ideal, but we’re on our way to a new model which we’ll document fully once it’s done.

Heroku ought to have fixed this by now.