Stabilize helper operation gate test

[malpern]

Fixes a CI-only scheduling race in HelperManagerTests. The test now verifies that both queued operations run after release without assuming Swift schedules tasks in creation order.\n\nValidation: helper-gate test completed before the full safe suite later stalled in the pre-existing HardViewSnapshotTests.testRepairSettingsTabView; remote review gate selected.

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[claude]

This change weakens the assertion from an exact-order check (finalOrder == ["second", "third"]) to an order-agnostic one (count + Set equality). If the code under test is expected to serialize these operations in a deterministic order (e.g. actor-serialized helper registration), this new assertion would silently pass even if the ordering regressed to ["third", "second"].

If the ordering was previously flaky/non-deterministic and that's why this was loosened, that's reasonable — but then the test name/comments should say so, and it may be worth asserting a happens-before relationship some other way (e.g. via timestamps) rather than dropping order-checking entirely. If ordering is actually guaranteed by the implementation, please restore the exact-order assertion instead.

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Preserve a real serialization assertion

If HelperOperationGate.release() regresses to resume every queued waiter simultaneously, this test will now pass: the recorder actor serializes the two append calls itself, and after awaiting both tasks the count/set assertions merely confirm that each task eventually ran. This leaves the test named testPrivilegedHelperOperationsAcquireGateSerially without coverage of the gate's single-permit guarantee; use a scheduling-independent overlap check or controlled critical-section barrier rather than relying on task creation order.

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Test-coverage regression: The change relaxes the assertion from an exact ordering check (XCTAssertEqual(finalOrder, ["second", "third"])) to a set-based check (Set(finalOrder) == Set([...])). If this was done to fix flakiness from genuinely non-deterministic completion order, that's reasonable, but it silently drops coverage for ordering guarantees (e.g. serialized/queued execution) that the original test seems designed to verify. Please confirm the ordering is actually non-deterministic here (e.g. due to concurrent tasks racing) rather than the test uncovering a real ordering bug that's now being masked. If order truly doesn't matter, consider a comment noting why, so a future reader doesn't mistake this for an accidental weakening.