Touch input dropped on home screen for a short window after bottom-edge swipe-to-home gesture

Issue: Input delay on Niagara Launcher home screen elements specifically when returning to home via bottom-edge swipe gesture (gesture navigation), not present when using other Home-trigger methods.
Device: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, One UI 8.5
Detailed observations:
1. Delay occurs after minimizing an app: for a short window of time after returning to the home screen, taps on Niagara elements are not registered at all — it's not strictly a single dropped tap, but a time window: tapping quickly enough, multiple consecutive taps can land within this window and all be ignored. Once the window elapses, taps register normally.
2. System UI elements (notification shade, Edge panel) respond instantly with no delay — only Niagara's own interactive elements are affected.
3. Fully removed and reinstalled Niagara (including clearing all cache and settings) — issue persists, ruling out app-level state corruption.
4. Fully disabled Good Lock (all modules) — issue persists, ruling out a Good Lock/Home Up conflict.
5. No updates to Niagara or to One UI occurred between when the behavior was fine and when it started.
6. Disabling all animations via Developer Options (Window/Transition/Animator scale set to 0x) eliminates the delay entirely.
7. Key finding: the delay is tied specifically to the transition type used to return home:
- Swiping up from the bottom edge of the screen (standard gesture navigation) → delay is present.
- Triggering "Go to Home" through an alternative method (e.g., a custom gesture mapped via Good Lock's One Hand Operation+ module, which issues a direct Home intent rather than a live gesture-tracked transition) → no delay at all.
8. A related visual symptom: right after minimizing an app, the wallpaper briefly plays a zoom/scale animation before settling — this is separate from a persistent parallax-style wallpaper movement that responds to finger drag on the home screen (which appears to be Niagara's own scroll effect, unaffected by disabling the wallpaper zoom setting in Good Lock's Home Up module).
Conclusion: This points to Niagara not fully/correctly synchronizing with the live gesture-navigation transition callback (the Launcher3-style gesture API that provides real-time wallpaper zoom/preview tracking during a swipe-up-from-bottom gesture), rather than a general performance or animation-duration issue. Non-gesture Home triggers bypass this live-tracking path entirely and are unaffected.