If you check the Automated tests in the recent update, the static-analysis is failing for cosmic-applets. If you open the test you will find that there are broken symlinks reported, e.g.:
Automated tests
static-analysis
cosmic-applets
VERIFY symbolic link /usr/bin/cosmic-app-list has too many levels of redirects and cannot be resolved in cosmic-applets on x86_64 /usr/bin/cosmic-app-list -> ../../../../../../../usr/bin/cosmic-applets
From the path it is evident that the symlinks are broken, but I didn't look into what generated these, probably symlink.patch?
symlink.patch