My bad. The recommendation at Google is to use publishReplay + refCount precisely for that reason, but surprisingly there's so little public documentation on e.

My bad. The recommendation at Google is to use publishReplay + refCount precisely for that reason, but surprisingly there's so little public documentation on e.g. the publishReplay rxjs operator, that I decided to go with what was ultimately more prevalent online. Probably worth fixing that though, and creating those resources out there.