Profile planner problems

I've been experiencing issues getting the planner to follow cycle routes in the Ruhr area. On Touring cycle it tries to route me off canal / railway purple paths to the road. On Road cycle it sometimes prefers the purple rail / canal routes, but both still often won't take me often on sections of purple cycle path unless I set points every few metres.

Is there a way to tell the profile to prefe cycle routes to roads? And is this new behaviour - I've been using Locus for at least 5 months a year every year for a long time and have never experienced such a frustrating time planning routes.

And I still really struggle with the changing profile from touring to pedestrian etc to see if that will route me through an area and always forget to continue with. That just makes no sense to me. Continue with should be the default, reroute the whole route and option.