I am still a big fan of CA glue. I have been using it for about thirty years. I do not understand about finicky. As far as stickiness, isn’t that what you want in an adhesive?
I have started using tight thin gloves that I have for painting when I am using CA to avoid having to pull it off my finders.
One neat thing about CA glue is you can get CA debonder. Make a mistake and you can undo it, Can’t do that with solvent glue.
C.A. glue isn’t the problem I have decided. It’s the User! No, I am not accusing anyone of being careless here. We just do things a certain way and sometimes our habits come back to bite us. This is more prevalent in the use of C.A.s than anything else. It’s funny in a way, but true. When we mess up with C.A. it’s ,(If you examine the facts) Specifically, our own fault. I have changed the way i use it .No problems now!