🌸 Cherry-pick request for #32487 into #32408 (Pending)

[dvoytenko]

Cherry-pick request

Issue	PR	Beta / Experimental?	Stable?	LTS?	Release issue
#32487	#32478	YES	NO	NO	#32408
#32487	#32478	NO	YES	YES	#32229

Why does this issue meet the cherry-pick criteria?

The pausing is caused more often when tabs are switched then needed. Fixes a bad UX and an expectation for playback.

List the steps to manually verify the changes in this cherry-pick

See #32487.

Mini-postmortem

TODO: This postmortem will be written after the cherry-pick deployment and before this issue is closed. Delete this TODO when the postmortem is ready.

Summary

<1-2 sentences summarizing the problem and root causes.>

Impact

• <Which users were affected? Roughly how many?>
• <How were users affected? E.g. partial or complete loss of functionality?>

Action Items

• #<ISSUE_NUMBER>: <Add unit/integration/end-to-end test>
• #<ISSUE_NUMBER>: <Add monitoring for edge case via error logging>
• #<ISSUE_NUMBER>: <Refactor an easily misused API>

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[dvoytenko]

The CP is ready.

[jridgewell]

Approved