Instead, I tried Touch Bar and it worked. Normally I'd reboot to fix it and it'd be a hassle. Just today, as I was writing this re-review, the macOS emoji picker glitched out and stopped inserting emoji into text for me.
Most of the apps I use frequently have updated now as well, including Logic Pro X last week. The other day I went to take a screenshot and noticed how the Grab utility offered some really cool Touch Bar shortcuts. In most cases, I can customize the ones I use all the time so they're almost always available and also benefit from the ones I'd forgotten - or never knew - existed because all of a sudden they're all up in my face. I can simply glance down and there the shortcuts are. On the plus side, Touch Bar has succeeded in getting me to use more shortcuts than I ever have before simply because I no longer need to remember them. Sure, Apple spent upwards of eight years working on it and that's absolutely evident in how solid the hardware is, but the implementations still squeak when they turn around too fast. Touch Bar, which is basically an extremely short iPad-as-input-device embedded above the keyboard, is still very new.
