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Not quite. The window pilots the surface, which pilots the backbuffer. When the surface is modified, vkQueuePresentKHR() will let you know that it changed and that the swapchain must/is ready to be recreated.

If we recreate the swapchain manually, there will be a chain of events that will recreate 2 to 3 times the swapchain on the same frame with different, and most of time broken/wrong sizes (e.g. when exiting fullscreen, SDL sends a 800x600 event that will be processed after VK has gracefully recreated the swapchain, and overriding the correct values ; another one is windows sending a 0x0 resize upon minimizing, which should be ignored and rendering just disabled).