@scops If the compositor crashes, the screen goes blank for a few seconds. Then people tend to press the power button instead of waiting for phosh to come up again (which, well, is a natural reaction to screen suddenly going blank), which in turn triggers a full shutdown as that's what systemd does when it notices the power button being pressed and there's no compositor to intercept it.
I'll take a look whether we can block that power button behavior when the compositor isn't up.