...anyway you could have Hungary bequeathed to another Habsburg to be king of an independent, but allied, Hungary?
I get the feeling that Cisleithania, while smaller, will be better off without Hungary, its underdevelopment and its ethnic feuds with Balkan neighbors.
Cisleithania would have an odd, stringy shape and a Dalmatian exclave, but would not be any skinnier than countries like Norway, Chile, Vietnam, Laos, Czechoslovakia or Cuba.