server-default-overrides-client-intent

A relay that owns the shared state stamps its own default onto fields your command did not set — most painfully forcing "not running" onto every item change — so a follower that obeys the message verbatim stops the thing it just loaded. Carry the previous intent across the change, and publish the missing field as a second command. Use when followers in a synchronised room go silent on every next/previous/end-of-item…