Swiper reference destroyed after moving the Swiper to offscreen area

[bluelemonade]

I'm having a little trouble understanding the destroyed feature. When is it activated?

I have the following setup: I have a vertical swiper in Vue3. OnMount, the swiper is read into a variable.

swiperRef = document.querySelector('.swiper').swiper;

Occasionally, I swipe the swiper offscreen, after which the swiper is still fully functional, only SwiperRef.slideNext() no longer works. No error, nothing!

The SwiperRef looks like this:
Proxy(Swiper) {destroyed: true}

If I recreate the reference before slideNext, everything is fine. I can do that, of course, I'd just like to understand why that's the case or how I can improve it.