This would be a lot less annoying, and involve fewer clicks, if you just had left click rotate one way and right click rotate the other way.
That app also implements the solution here, of having a toggle that swaps the effect of press and long-press. I use that... sometimes. Rarely. But more often than I attempt to long-press.
Cell phones have a bad UI paradigm and therefore using software on a cell phone is generally more painful and annoying than using software on a computer. But that's not a reason to force painful, annoying UI into the computer too.
[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles/