An hour and change in the rain and, can confirm, our brand new Enphase controller can't connect to a WiFi network with "&" in the password.
My guess is overseas vibe coders, since they offshored most of their technical staff.
Big surge in BlueSky followers with a few tens of thousands of followers and followees. I highly suspect an automated influencing campaign using this platform is responsible for them. A lot of very similar claiming left of center activism profiles (which tracks, but there's no personality behind them).