I just swapped out my master and had the same problem. Did you bench bleed the MC prior to installation. I got lazy and skipped that step. After getting the soft pedal like yours, I bench bled it and it solved my problem. I don't know why the symptom doesn't show without the motor running. In any case, this is what solved my problem.
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