Consider replacing gorilla with https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket

[gdamore]

There's a justification on their project page, but a big piece of that justification will be reducing the 3rd party dependencies.

[gdamore]

So that API depends on go 1.19. That might not be too bad given that go 1.22 is now released, but there may be some concerns. Especially as Go has itself started dropping legacy platforms.