Just circled back on this and figured it out. The Rocktech on NXP kits uses the FT5336GQQ (oddly with a NXP FT5406 driver) and the NewHaven the FT5426. So you would think the FT5426 display would work better with the FT5406 driver than the bloody FT5336. But nope. X and Y are backwards. Which doesnt seem to be the case, as left touch does move you left sometimes.
One just needs to change them in the EW touch BSP:
int EwBspGetTouchPosition( XPoint* aPos )
{
...
// default code
// aPos->X = cursorPosX;
// aPos->Y = cursorPosY;
// mls
aPos->X = cursorPosY;
aPos->Y = cursorPosX;
...
}
FocalTech is pretty shy with documentation on these chips.