18 waiting, and that number is 40s old how many arrived since is not knownthe transport backs off and retries on its own, so there is nothing for a button to do that is not already happening

This is not the stale screen and it must not read like one. Stale is CLOSED: the transport has given up, so the page offers a retry. This is CONNECTING: the transport is already retrying under exponential backoff, so a retry control would be a button that does what is happening anyway. What is honest here is the count. Stale knows what it has and says as of when; reconnecting does not know what it is missing, and the one thing it must never do is show 18 as though it were 18.

7 of 18 as of 40s ago ↑ ↓ read, the pane follows Enter decides, focus moves into the pane order: unrecorded, waiting on you, severity, age