Maybe I got a broken one? The translate handles on mine seem to stretch to infinity but they are just a pipe with no arrow or anything at the end of it. (So maybe in fact the gizmo is now massive and I just can’t see the ends of it?) And the pipe itself is indeed selectable through the meshes of other objects but I have to be REAL careful to aim at that pipe when grabbing the manipulator or else it simply selects the object in which the pipe is buried. (usually happens when translating things in which I have set the pivot point to the floor for easier snapping and I am trying to slide things along the floor.)
By light press do you mean where I am supposed to be able to half press the trigger when attempting to select multiple objects? I have only been able to get that to work a couple of times and it seems erratic. I wonder if some of my problems are stemming from scene scale? I am trying to keep my “zoom” at 1.0 when evaluating my first person perspective. That is correct?