It should not. I tested it and i'm certain it doesn't. However I'm not 100% sure if that is the case for platforms that don't support linear color space. If you want to make sure no problem will happen, you can check the color space the unity player…
I've tested yout solution and it works, sadly it only is avaiable if you're not setting any specific node to act as the root motion source (as the "bake Y into pose" setting only appears that way).
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I'll still fiddle a little b…