Hi, Galtwo,
Seem nobody have any solution for you beside forcing you to keep following. Things doesn’t not satisfy them, but it doesn’t mean it’s not satisfy to the other. SketchUp dev should at least give the options to the user. Look at blender, bunch of control for simple user.
For my suggestion, you can use “X-Mouse Button Control” which is free.
With X-Mouse, you can set as to other software as well. Make sure it won’t conflict with built-in mouse navigation.