The bug
Mobs stop being aggressive at a target mob when that target mob converts.
For example when a skeleton is angry at a zombie and the zombie is converted to a drowned, the skeleton will simply forget about the zombie, as if it died. This could be the case with some other mobs too.
Linked issues
Comments 5
I only marked them as related because here the target mob is converting (zombie → drowned), while in MC-194158 the aggressive mob converts.
Duplicate of MC-194158