task.queued_duration metric not emitted in Airflow 3 (all executors)
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Description
### Under which category would you file this issue?
Airflow Core
### Apache Airflow version
3.x
### What happened and how to reproduce it?
What happened:
task.queued_duration (legacy: dag...queued_duration) is never emitted in Airflow 3 regardless of executor (LocalExecutor, CeleryExecutor, KubernetesExecutor). The companion metric task.scheduled_duration emits correctly.
No `"cannot record queued_duration"` warnings appear in logs, the metric emission code is never reached, not silently skipped.
How to reproduce:
1. Run any DAG on Airflow 3 with StatsD configured
2. Observe task.scheduled_duration (or legacy dag...scheduled_duration) appears in metrics
3. Observe task.queued_duration (or legacy dag...queued_duration) is absent
### What you think should happen instead?
task.queued_duration should be emitted each time a task transitions from QUEUED --> RUNNING, matching Airflow 2 behavior.
### Operating System
linux
### Deployment
None
### Apache Airflow Provider(s)
_No response_
### Versions of Apache Airflow Providers
_No response_
### Official Helm Chart version
Not Applicable
### Kubernetes Version
_No response_
### Helm Chart configuration
_No response_
### Docker Image customizations
_No response_
### Anything else?
- task.scheduled_duration emits correctly because the scheduler still owns the SCHEDULED --> QUEUED transition and calls emit_state_change_metric(QUEUED) directly.
- queued_dttm is correctly set when the task enters QUEUED state , so the timing data is available, it just never gets consumed for the metric.
- This looks like a regression from Airflow 2 where queued_duration was reliably emitted for all executor types.
### Are you willing to submit PR?
- [ ] Yes I am willing to submit a PR!
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