I'm happy to see this write up. I have the same experience with this behavior and others, including the keyboard being (a) called when it shouldn't be and (b) vice-versa.
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While writing up this article, I only just noticed that the Typescript playground [1] (that I referred to in the post) straight up does not work with Gboard in Firefox, because the keyboard never shows up.
I do not know why.
If you first open one of the menus or press and hold to bring up the right click menu, and then you click on the text area, then the keyboard comes up.
I get the same bug with Firefox and AnySoftKeyboard, so it might be Firefox's bug