I have a solution, well for my use case anyways
So I have been struggling with this forever too — I have a session where I send midi events out to my Kemper amp to auto-switch presets during lives shows. However, if I accidentally click on the midi track, the auto-arm crashes the Kemper. I think it sends some bogus midi that it can't handle...
I found that if you create a Folder Stack (in my case just for a single track) and collapse it, you can then click on folder track without it arming the actual midi track within. This way you can at least interact with the midi regions and do some basic fader adjustments/mute/solo/etc. without accidentally messing your rig up.
Hope this helps!