Ever since we introduced the CommunityDrawerNavigator, we've had an issue where any tap will trigger a TextInput onBlur
In ENG-8326, I investigated this issue in the context of ChatThreadListSearch's clear button causing a keyboard dismissal. I investigated by iteratively disabling parts of the application, including the navigation stack. That helped me identify that CommunityDrawerNavigator is responsible.
Once I figured that out, I was able to restore the old behavior by introducing keyboardDismissMode: 'none'. This also seems to address ENG-8325.
Now that the keyboard is not handled directly by the navigator, I added some code to TabNavigator to make sure we dismiss the keyboard when the drawer is focused. While this isn't as ideal as @react-navigation/stack's keyboard manager (which dismisses the keyboard when a gesture is started, and can refocus the keyboard if the gesture is abandoned), using that behavior isn't possible here because @react-navigation/drawer doesn't expose a way for us to know when a gesture begins or is cancelled.