Auto Depth + Trackball navigation behaviour change?

This has probably been posted somewhere but i can’t find it at the moment.
It seems that blender is now guessing the depth of the mouse click position when auto depth is turned on even if you click on empty space.
I find this to be extremely inconvenient because i used to click and drag on empty space to roll the view.
Is there a shortcut i’m missing to roll the view with the mouse or is trackball view now basically unusable, which i highly doubt but who knows …

Could be nice if someone, preferably someone who knows the reasoning behind this change, could shed some light on this.

Thanks in advance!