I've just put a new chain onto the road bike, and started to use Squirt lube.

I degreased the chain before use (KMC chain) using a jar of white spirit to drop it in and shake / etc for a few hours. Then rinsed with water, and repeated.

To finish cleaning I used some bike disc cleaner (as it evaporates well).
The chain certainly felt dry and clean, zero residue on a cloth etc When pulled through, and felt perfectly dry to hand. (Left several hours to dry too).

I used disc cleaner as it's hard to get IPA at the moment in the UK (As it's all diverted to hand sanitiser production, or the cost is piss-takingly high).

2 coats of Squirt. Let dry between. Then left over night before riding.

Felt dry to touch before riding.

After 5-10 miles in the dry, if I run the chain between my fingers I get some tacky black stuff on them.
(Wipes off fingers easily enough and chain is nowhere near as cacked up or nasty as if I'd used wet oil lube).

What are other folks experience ? Is it supposed to be perfectly dry once in use ? Or is what I see usual ?
Did I not get the degreaser out of the chain rollers/ pins fully ?

Or is this 'normal' ?

(BTW I've not moved to 'full hot waxing' yet as I'm wary about corrosion as it rains often in the UK !!)