I have good news, everyone!After giving up on an answer here I used my
Google One subscription benefit of access to customer service to ask
about this issue and finally got a solution to the problem...Google
changed the gesture to play/pause from a c...
I and many other people in this thread are STILL experiencing this issue
on our devices - i.e. play/pause tap/touch not working despite a factory
reset - so what is Google doing to resolve this problem? Seems pretty
clear it's a software issue since ...