Apple Watch Wifi keeps reverting to private address

Hi there. I updated my Series 3 Apple Watch to WatchOS 8.1 a month or two ago and have run into no end of issues. The latest is this - in both my work and home environment, Wifi is restricted by MAC address, so the concept of "private addresses" won't allow that to work (I want and require my Wifi to know which specific devices are connecting to it). So I have all my Apple devices specifically set to not use private addresses on my networks.

I know that while trying to connect, in Wifi settings, I can touch the SSID name on the watch and then, turn off private address. After it fails the first time, I can then connect again, and since it is now properly broadcasting its MAC address (as all devices should do), it connects and everything works fine. That should be all I have to do.

Except, after the update, it seems to only remember that I want private addressing on my networks for a few days. Every few days, my watch can't connect to Wifi, and when I check it out in settings, sure enough it's going for private addressing again.

Is there a fix for this (or a way to tell it to not use private addressing as a default in general - I don't care if third party Wifi sites recognize me, but I certainly require my own Wifi to do so). It used to work properly prior to my update of WatchOS (but then again, a lot of things used to work properly prior to that....)

Thanks!

Dan