I bought a huge and nice new Samsung TV last year and tried to pair it with a NUC running Win11, and the TV insisted on doing some weird "detecting your device,

I bought a huge and nice new Samsung TV last year and tried to pair it with a NUC running Win11, and the TV insisted on doing some weird "detecting your device, you should use our remote to control this device" bullshit with it every single time I switched inputs, such that it would miss the HDMI handshake and one side of the connection would give up and result in "no signal", and then I'd have to sleep and wake the NUC to get it to work.