ViewHelper gizmo never exits animating mode

View Helper when clicking on Z axies never exit animating mode and just glitch out in place.
I suspect it might something to do with my scene being default Z axis up.

I am initializing using regular orbit controls and regular perspective camera.
I am on version 160.0 and I only initialize center = orbitControls.target, since controls property is gone it seems.

In the render loop I update the gizmo like this. I added a timer to remedy the animation glitching out and stop it manually.
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Is it a bug or am I missing something?
Thank you!