Cannot change colour legend position for continuous variable

Locked question #1049 relates to the same issue, which still persists. Changing legend position is fiddly but works ok for factor variable:

require(ggplot2)
require(ggmap)
require(plotly)

m = c(left=60.5, bottom =29.3, right = 75.2, top = 38.5) |> 
  ggmap::get_stamenmap(maptype = 'toner', zoom = 6)

d = data.frame(x = rnorm(mean = 65, sd = 3, 50), 
               y = rnorm(mean = 34, sd = 2, 50))

p1 = ggmap(m) + 
  geom_point(data=d, aes(x, y, col = factor(round(x))), size=3) +
  labs(col = 'Eastness', x = NULL, y = NULL) +
  theme_void()

ggplotly(p1) |> layout(legend = list(xanchor  = "left", x = 0, yanchor = "bottom", y = 0.2))

But for a continuous variable this fails:

p2 = ggmap(m) + 
  geom_point(data=d, aes(x, y, col = x), size=3) +
  labs(col = 'Eastness', x = NULL, y = NULL) +
  theme_void()

ggplotly(p2) |> layout(legend = list(xanchor  = "left", x = 0, yanchor = "bottom", y = 0.2))

This seems to me this is a pretty basic and important thing to get right. I wonder if there's any chance to fix?

Start by running the reproducible R examples for p1 and p2 in the issue, comparing factor and continuous colour legends after the layout call. Trace how ggplotly converts each legend and how layout positioning is applied. Done means the continuous colour legend moves to the requested position without breaking the factor case.