In the process it helped me to learn many details about RA and NDP (Router Advertisments/Neighbor Discovery Protocol, which mostly replace DHCP and ARP from IPv4).
It made me realize that my WiFi mesh routers do quite a lot of things to prevent broadcast loops on the network, and that all my weird issues could be attributed to one cheap mesh repeater. So I replaced it and now everything works like a charm.
I had this setup for 5 years and was never able to figure out what was going on there, although I really tried.