Unable to format Extreme Portable SSD V2 on MacOS Monterey

It’s not worth the hair loss! I was able to format the drive on Big Sur as APFS, after which is seemed to work on my Monterey machine, but I’ll probably return it anyway because at some point when don’t have a Big Sur machine I’ll probably need to format again - plus I don’t fully trust a drive that won’t even format on a given OS.