Resolved DontDestroyWithOwner and IsLocalPlayer on hosts

I am trying to leave the player network objects in scene when they disconnect, and if they reconnect give the player object back to them. Despawning the object and respawning on reconnection isn't what I want because it essentially would let players alt f4 if they are in any kind of danger - I want the object to remain in the world and be interacted with normally by everyone else as if nothing happened.

So first step, as per docs, is set the player object to DontDestroyWithOwner = true. This works fine, the object isn't destroyed when the client disconnects and the object can still be interacted with by other players/enemies.

However the problem I noticed with this, is now IsLocalPlayer returns true for this object on the host. I'm not sure what to do with this, since I have IsLocalPlayer checks all over my codebase for this object type, which would lead to weird behaviour for hosts. I do have a static reference to who the local player is, which I can add to IsLocalPlayer checks, but this isn't very elegant since I would basically need to reference the root player object/script in every network component to check that IsLocalPlayer is actually the spawned local player and not just an object that the host currently has ownership of. I am wondering if there is a simpler/built-in way that I haven't thought of.