That’s a pretty thoughtful workaround. However, that doesn’t resolve the footnote linking issue.
If I click on a footnote number link in the main text on the left, it doesn’t jump to the relevant annotation on the right. It jumps to the footnotes on the bottom of the left page, which would still leave me either having to jump around a lot on the left or manually digging for footnotes on the right, which is less convenient and efficient, especially for longer chapters with potentially hundreds of annotations.