@Edent In Brave on Android, I can press and hold to select a single word, but not across a word boundary... except the one time it did, and (a) I can't work out how I did that and (b) it made the selection handles visually disappear (but I could still ask my phone to read the selection). Whut.
@Edent Brave does seem increasingly quirky, I'm about to jump ship (when I finish the course I'm currently on, and have some brain cells spare to deal with any weirdness that comes up during that process).