Which matching algorithm are you using? You can check that in the settings page under advanced settings. I suggest using the "combined" matching algorithm.

> And it's also missing one function that an older extension used to have. To be fair, I'm not sure any of the current ones have it. That's the ability to distinguish 'new tab' and 'open link in new tab' with the same gesture.

You can do this by just creating a gesture with the "open link in new tab" command and activating the setting "open empty tab".