The character is half the size of the Brain2D.
Here's a video with gizmos enabled. You can clearly see that the character does this weird stagger whenever it sets the pathfinding around navmesh holes. I tried doing this with Brain2D as well but the …
Thank you for the answer! And yes, I'm quite aware that some control schemes are more annoying than others, planning to wrap my head around the ways in which I can alter the controls as much as necessary. Thank you again!