I genuinely believe here, that the issue of not allowing, or supplying users with the means to, officially perform "factory reinstalls" (Sideloading Firmware) is causing an unnecessary overhead on this problem.

Sideload v41, reset, then up to v43 again? I've been using and developing for "Oculus for Business" (now Meta for Business) for the last 2 or so years, so was able to leverage some "higher up" support. That said, as soon as I mentioned sideloading to...

I found a copy of V43 "Full" and sideloaded this, performed a factory reset and now, after being stuck for 2/3 weeks, I can finally use my Quest 2 again. Google: "v43 Update Zip File Available?", hit up Reddit.

I've had an open ticket with Oculus support for a similar problem. I've effectively got a brick. My Quest 2 has been sat at this "Pairing" screen for 2 weeks now. Problem 1, was that it's hardly been out of the box, so was running 23.0.0.87.517.26051...