I did a little more research about connecting a touchscreen to an RPi. Using the DSI port is the official way to connect one, and it's approved to work with LE. To make an USB touchscreen work, you need high speed USB to transfer display data, but your Rock64 doesn't have it. The fact that it works on Armbian is because it's not optimized for media output.
Get some DSI touchscreens, and you will make it until Halloween.