Yes
Authentication error when the user is offline is not user-friendly.
The technical details can be abstracted for the end user.
Error message:
"An internal error has occurred. [Unable to resolve host "www.googleapis.com": No address associated with hostname ]"

A much more user-friendly message to denote that the user is offline.
@Abhimanyu14 thanks for reporting! Agree, we should make this much friendlier.
@samtstern I created a bug to track this internally as well (b/179035604)