dino
Hooray! I've only tested for a few minutes but I haven't seen the problem reappear so far (and before it required literal seconds to reproduce).
And for the record I'm using a magic trackpad 2 which does support force touch, yes. Was it a force touch issue? I hadn't even considered the input device being the problem or I would've tried a regular mouse!
Edit: yep, if I disable force touch the problem disappears in the regular Orion as well.