The pairing state file seems worth exploring. Thank you!

I’m using Gnome and whatever it uses under the hood for bluetooth. Restarting the daemon might be worth exploring though, at least to see if behavior changes.

That’s exactly the route that I was going. Although I’m back at work today and noticed that even a usb-connected wired headset has some issues. I have to do some more testing, but the only way I’ve been able to make things work seamlessly is by logging out with my private user entirely while I’m working :/