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That’s a practice, not a mandate of the Laws. (That used to be the Law, but that was a long time ago.) Even if it is not best practice, o thing prevents an R from going back if he realizes he made a mistake in applying advantage. The OSP player is a perfect example of when it would be appropriate. If the R sees the pass to the wide open player as the reason there is an advantage (not knowing the player is in OSP), then the R should absolutely pull it back when that pass is made and he is flagged for OS. An R can change any decision so long as play has not been restarted.Once he signals for advantage, the new(ish) direction is that you do not pull it back. The signal indicates that the advantage is actualized, not that he's waiting to see if it will. So in this case, the problem is that the referee signaled advantage much too quickly instead of waiting to see if anything actually materialized.
(Separately, I still don’t think the one size fits all is the best way to handle timing on advantage. But I also am not taught over here that either mode is the only way to do it properly.)