This is another instance of graphene reversing the order of operations (see
the commit notes of how ClutterActor was ported.) The tl;dr; here is that,
in the CoglMatrix past, we used to do:
(actor transforms) → scale
and now, it's the other way round:
scale → (actor transforms)
due to changing from right-handed multiplications (CoglMatrix) to left-handed
ones (graphene_matrix_t).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1439
f9d1b7ca58