Two finger force touch or two finger tap, should be given as options. I personally disabled all tapping gestures system-wide and enabled only force touch to register.
For two finger force touch, your finger wouldn’t have to move off the trackpad, this is great for multitasking. I do that all the time when watching lectures.
For people who watches a lot of YouTube, “J,K,L” are used to backward, pause, and forward in addition to the spacebar and arrow buttons. (Kinda like vim)