So I did another attempt at editing something in fairlight.
After disabling layered audio to prevent clips from spontaneously overlapping others by only clicking on it, I immediately stumbled onto the next weird behavior:
When dragging a clip backwards it moves 'under' other clips, which makes exactly zero sense.
So after this I continued editing audio in the edit window with layered editing enabled..
Can this behavior be disabled?
I know I can drag normally when layered audio is enabled, but then when I click on a clip (in Fairlight) the entire handle spontaneously appears and overlaps other clips so that's also unworkable.
Layered audio may also be the cause of some serious AAF export problems in the form of missing clips but that's another story.
I said it before, I love

Resolve but the Fairlight part makes no sense in any way (including the name btw).