FWIW, I do get occasional touch issues, but I've gotten them on every ROM I've ever installed on the phone (didn't use Stock long enough on it to know whether or not my hardware is the issue). My wife also has an Essential but its running the Stock ROM and it doesn't have these issues. For me the issue generally manifests after the screen has been on awhile and some small portion of the screen turns into a dead zone. Putting the screen to sleep for a few seconds and turning it back on afterwards generally resolves the issue.
Like I said, this behavior isn't specific to this ROM and I've seen the issue on every ROM I've installed on the phone. Generally it only happens to me once a day at most so it's that not big of a deal, hence my lack of *****ing.