In general no and if people were honest they would also say no. your flying around buildings, objects of all types and a thousand feet or more from your view point. No there is no way to fly VLOS at all times and the honest answer is almost never.
You are right in what you say . . . I think I've already admitted I'm not 100% VLOS all the time, and agree almost all pilots would be the same, once past any nervous flyer thing.
Mostly, I feel it's to do with flying FPV, which technically flying using a monitor / viewing device with our controller is too.
I video almost all the time aloft, very occasionally taking a photo or two.
No way am I not watching that screen and constantly framing shots, adjusting a whole lot of aspects of moving that drone / gimbal etc, almost 100% of the time.
About the only time I watch for the drone is on the return, when I sight it to land.
I always know where it is from the map etc, direct line home showing, orientation on device and to the land, but when looking up from a device, it's very hard to spot until it gets pretty close again.
Usually about the time you can hear it, unless there is some good white fluffy cloud out (against the MP grey).
The strobes I have ordered should help a heck of a lot relocating it when looking.
In very remote desolate type regions, I have flown a fair way out, well beyond strobe reach in daylight too I imagine, longest 1000m, maybe 10m to 20m AGL almost the whole flight.
I actually ran this past a CASA rep once, and the story behind the indiscretion, to get his feedback on that one flight.
He said that's not what they are concerned with. At all.
This CASA rep was pretty high up in the drone dept, was at an aerospace type mini expo.
I was pretty happy the more we talked about a whole range of drone things.