Yes, that’s true it works with Nougat but not with Pie and above. The reason is the old TWRP which is well known/documented. You will lose touch even in the ROM. I experienced that early on also.
See this and this for more info. You will have to use a patched TWRP if you want to move up from Nougat. Since TWRP becomes part of the boot image, the old TWRP’s incompatibility with Pie+ will manifest itself when the ROM boots. Even if touch was working during the flashing process.
Besides, when going to 0.12 & 0.13, are you doing so from Nougat firmware? In general it’s best to update to compatible firmware first.
I’ve had many a failure trying to get Pie fully working when trying to directly update from Nougat.