M1 MacBook Pro won't take advantage of Eero's 'client steering' feature

So I have a pair of eero Pro 6E devices. One, the gateway is connected to my modem, and the other is setup as a beacon in the master bedroom. My tablets and smartphones all manage to navigate seamlessly to the closest eero device for the strongest WIFI signal. But my MBP will not. It insists on remaining on the initial WiFi signal it started on. I've tried to delete the WiFi from the radio's WiFi history, restarted the machine, and then reconnected (after entering the password), but it still connects to the wrong device on the network.

Searching the internet I discovered the following command:

sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport prefs joinMode=Strongest

Executing this script instructs the MacBook Pro's WiFi radio to connect to the strongest signal, rather than the most recent one.

But Apple deprecated this and most of the airport functionality (if not all of it). So that's a no-go.

What script can I execute so that my WiFi radio will actually find the strongest signal, and not one from its memory?

I understand that moving about the house (or rather, multiple floors) in a mesh network is a no-go for MacBook users (seriously?), but aside from powering off the eero device that the MBP remembers to connect to, I'm at a loss here.