If nothing else, my hope is that this post helped shed some light on the fact that LCP is, by its very nature, a dynamic metric that is heavily dependent on user behavior. You can’t always know ahead of time what the LCP element is going to be for a given page, so it’s important that your optimization techniques can handle a range of possible outcomes, and adapt accordingly.

For technical teams I advise to additionally track LCP(FE), or the Front End Component of LCP.