No, however setting it to "disabled" does. Very interesting set of options there, i had no idea how to reach these.
When touch-events are disabled, Opera ceases to react to my finger, but starts reacting way better to the Surface Pro's pen, and does allow the quickdial icons to be dragged around with it. Not an ideal solution, but at least a workaround for the rare occasions where I have some quickdial reaorganisation to do. Thanks a lot for this.
I still hope some later Opera version will completely solve the issue (by behaving like the android version whether i use the pen or the finger), but until then this will do.