I leave wavemon running in a terminal just for sport these days to see what my ax200 and ax210 are doing. It is always a mysterious surprise to see what rx and tx values might be seen at any given time.
> "Goofy problems [...] abound for a _long time_ with seemingly no solution" is the norm in desktop Linux.
Hey, it's still better than Windows:) To quote a bit from upthread,
>>i should add that this happens on both windows and linux but at least on linux i had a way of disabling LAR so my regulatory domain gets detected properly and all the wifi channels/widths works as they should.