It's fragile if you do that. Bitwarden updated their API last month on the clients so you couldn't connect to Vaultwarden at all until the Vaultwarden team could reverse engineer the change and produce a new release.
In my case I could continue to use the app, it broke the ability to sign into the vault. If you only lock your vault and not fully logout you may not have noticed it.
Thanks. I do not even lock BW, not to mention logging out, and almost never connect to the vault via the web interface - so yes I must have simply missed it.
Sorry probably not the best wording. If Bitwarden changes their API the Vaultwarden team has to act fast enough to get the same changes into the Rust version before Bitwarden updates the clients. In one case they weren't fast enough https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/issues/3082
