Project Pro corrupting task details (% complete, start date, due date) on SharePoint Online

I think I've found a bug with Project Professional for O365 Client ... or it may be 'intended' behavior that's potentially quite destructive. Sorry for the long post.
Here's my scenario. I have a 'project site' set up in SPO. I use the richness of Project Pro Client to update tasks in that project, and members of my project team update their tasks using the basic SPO interface through web browser.
Here's my problem ... two in fact.
#1 - whenever I open Project Client and access the tasks in the SPO project site, it (Project Client) randomly changes some info about some of the tasks in the project ... at the time the Client OPENS. E.g. % complete, start date, end date are some of the fields
that are being clobbered by the Client. But only on some tasks, not all. So imagine a task is 100% complete. Open the Client, and it also shows the task 100% complete once all the synchronization with the SPO task list is complete, but now go look on SPO (while
Client is still open on my laptop), and the task suddenly shows 50% complete. Now close the Client WITH SAVE, and it sets the task back to 100%. But close the client WITHOUT SAVE (remember, we haven't changed anything, so why would I save?), and the task gets
left at 50% complete in SPO. Same behavior with dates. And again, Client is not doing this with all the tasks in the project, just some of them, and I haven't been able to find the pattern.
#2 - Project Client, for whatever reason, creates a new version of each task in the project on SPO, even though nothing changed about the task (i.e. no updates to % complete, start date, end date or anything else). I have versioning turned on so that I can
see the history of each task (i.e. see who changed/updated each task and when). Problem is that the Client is adding a new version each time I run it and access the project, causing old version info to be dropped (because I limit the number of versions to
20), making it impossible for me to spot legitimate changes to task details among all the 'false' version changes generated by the client.
I have a test project with just 3 tasks set up on my test site. I'm able to reproduce the behavior above every time (i.e. it's not intermittent).
Has anyone out there had similar unexpected behavior from the Project Client/SPO project site combination?

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