That’s a fair point, and a use case that we didn’t consider during the meeting. We can certainly consider making it an option, but if we can avoid adding yet more behavior options I think that would be preferable.
I do think that (option or not) the behavior when starting playback and the behavior during playback should match each other, though. It feels odd to me if those behaviors are different, and it makes the during-playback behavior rather hidden IMO.