neverball issue with joystick and camera mode

Not sure if this is a joystick issue or a bug in neverball

A while back I use to play neverball a fair amount (circa 19.10 and/or 20.04) and went back to it recently (21.04) and discovered the joystick didn't work like it use to.

When using the joystick and setting camera mode to chase (or lazy) everything looks ok until using the joystick to manually move the camera. Once that happens, it is like chase mode gets disabled (i.e. it acts like manual). Even changing the camera mode to something else and back to chase doesn't correct the issue.

This does not happen if doing the same thing (manually moving camera angle while in chase or lazy mode) with keyboard or mouse.

After moving the camera angle on the joystick, if I then move the camera angle via keyboard or mouse, then chase mode will start working again. I also noticed that sometimes, when doing the camera angle change via the keyboard (after doing so via joystick), it keep turning after releasing the key (s) until the other direction key (d) is pressed.

I tried unplugging the joystick and plugging it back it, but that didn't change anything. Nor did rebooting.

Any suggestions?

Description: Ubuntu 21.04
Release: 21.04
neverball:
  Installed: 1.6.0+git20180603-3
  Candidate: 1.6.0+git20180603-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.0+git20180603-3 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Bus 001 Device 013: ID 046d:c216 Logitech, Inc. F310 Gamepad [DirectInput Mode]