While visually lighting a candle is now never delayed by adding new lit textures for candles (fixes MC-203558), the particles (as specified in the description of that bug report, but not the title) still is sometimes delayed. This report specifies that the candle particles are delayed in the title.
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Aren't those particles just the ones that spawn naturally on a lit candle, which are not a constant thing. I think this is intended.
I can confirm. Sometimes when lighting the candle the particles are delayed just a bit