Only selecting an option should trigger that behavior. And my testing on my own Samsung device has the expected behavior. I don’t like the snap to top at all, though, and should probably find another way to implement this.
The settings menu is available prior to leaving the main menu via the sidebar. I will consider mirroring the option on the menu itself.
Unplayable seems like a strong assessment even given the more severe setting issue you’ve encountered, but I suppose that is subjective. Not being able to change autosave frequency and some other small number of options on some percentage of Samsung devices is indeed a bug, but hardly on the level of a priority 1 issue like a softlock, at least for me.
I’ll try to resolve the settings issue for the next update. Hopefully I will be able to find some way to recreate it. Thanks for letting me know.