BTT Touch Bar does not show up anymore

BTT worked great on my MacBook Pro 10.14.6 for the first week, then suddenly disappeared. Its processes appeared normally in the process monitor, but no BTT touchbar no matter what I tried. I did a clean re-install of BTT, and it appeared again--then disappeared again. After about 3-4 rounds of this, I then selected the "Show Menubar Icon" option, and no problems for a couple of days so far, knock wood. Other apps (namely, 1Password) also suggest showing their menu bar icon as a way to ensure the program stays resident. Is that a factor with BTT?