For a large number or URC or Pronto expatriates (or those not wanting to buy multiple backups on eBay or having issues with legacy serial adapters on recent windows) a stateless option would help for deterministic functioning of the remote w/o nanny states approximating Harmony functionality.
The Activity Group is a wonky semi workaround that is not the answer. And yes, I don’t mind sending an off command multiple times to make sure it works.