TL;DR;
I was able to “break” Orbi’s 2.4G backhaul fallback
and hence force it onto 5G.
So instead of this

I got this:

The solution isn’t clean. Basically telnet to the satellite and then
1 | root@RBS20:/# config set wlg_sta_ssid=<original ssid>_disabled |
Then reboot.
More details and investigation
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