This is actually one of the huge tradeoffs and pitfalls of LiveView. Its websocket model is all or nothing.

For example I have a small side project using LiveView where users would typically pull their phone out, quickly record data, then put it away again. But due LiveView only working with a connected websocket they often have to wait ~1s for the socket to reconnect, and get an annoying error message while it does.

I'm sure there's more I could do to configure this but the default at least is terrible. I believe with Hotwire I wouldn't have this problem, my view would just work and then restore the websocket when it can.

I use Phoenix and LiveView for a lot but I wish we could get more of these rough edges polished up.