'Why is it by design that MySQL closes the connection when max_packet_size is exceeded? Evidence based opinions acceptable as Answer

I have numerous WordPress websites that crash at random due to max_packet_size being exceeded by a request.

I have just increased the size, to hopefully avoid this in the future, but I don't understand why MySQL would intentionally severe a connection for a request that was too large instead of rejecting it.

This results in these websites going down. And I'm not confident that increasing the max_packet_size really solves the root problem which is the shutting down.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/packet-too-large.html

Does anyone have any insight as to why this occurs? Is my perspective on this issue lacking?

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