I was finally able to solve this today. This level is so dumb it's amazing. Kind of unbelievable there's only one solution and everything else is 2 off. This level uses the one weird trick so newbs are absolutely ****ed if they decide to play this. Hilarious.
Very nice level. My first attempt was a large number of steps off, but eventually I figured out a slightly faster path, and then was able to bring that down from 6-off to the solution. Very nice and tight solution here, and also a slightly tricky 2-off at the end.