ok, looks like all the events were ignored with the below reason
I was aware XA is not supported consuming/receiving from a partitioned queue. I was checking if we can still consume a Partitioned Queue using a NonXA transaction and orchestrate a db + topic as a XA transaction, which would have worked for our use case, but looks like its an issue even when producing to a topic that has a partitioned queue as a subscriber.
Summary of my evaluation
If we need to leverage XA - then we have to go with Exclusive Queues and Non Partitioned Queues. With Exclusive Queues trade-off is on parallel processing and with Non Partitioned Non Exclusive queues trade-off is out-of-order events