Duncan
"I've done something wrong"
Cool, looks like you found a shortcut to pressing the rotate icon on the bottom of the window. When you say that you can't get out of it, I hope you mean that it happens every time you press the scroll wheel and not that you're locked in the rotate mode. On my SE, pressing Escape ends the rotate mode.
"It isn't actually showing the planes"
You have probably turned off the Base Planes display on the Pathfinder. On the Pathfinder display, there is an item "Base Reference Planes. If that is Greyed Out, tick the empty box to the left. Clicking the boxed "+" symbol allows you to view or hide individual planes . Similarly you can view or hide any reference planes that you add.
If the Boxed F3 is displaying, click it, or press F3 to unlock the currently selected plane .
Gordon
Edited to remove partial word
Edited By GordonH on 23/04/2022 08:07:29