I totally get your frustration—Windows 11 has been a mess with some printers lately. I ran into a similar problem and ended up using a dedicated print server to bypass the Windows headaches. I grabbed a TP-Link TL-PS110U, and it did the trick for connecting my printers over Ethernet. If you’ve got an old PC lying around, you could also set up a simple Linux distro like Ubuntu Server and use CUPS to manage your printers.