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Kind of my experience too.
It seems like one needs a period of "strict keto" at first so that the body makes the shift to keto being the "default energy method" (which is the next level after just "being in ketosis" for a while).
Once fat adapted, which can take anywhere from a couple weeks to several months depending on the person, it will often mean that they can eat more carbs daily and get back into ketosis easier and faster. Once I'm really in a keto diet, I can eat as many as 100g a day without getting kicked out. I can even have a cheat meal and either not get kicked out or I'm back in within less than 24 hours, sometimes faster. Apparently that's unusual, though, and I chalk that up to Germanic/Northern European/Scandinavian genetics; thriving on a higher fat and high protein diet.