>Maybe stupid question... You do have the Ztella MQA version?

Fuck.... I'm gonna leave this up as a mark of my stupidity.

To answer your questions for any future people with similar problems:

MQA is checked, but someone suggested to uncheck and a dev suggested there was no need to do that.

The app UI does show Green and Blue dots for MQA songs and non MQA songs.

This whole time I really thought the signs were pointing to the pixel being the problem (even UAPP still has it listed as incompatible) despite the June '22 update. The UI even told me to turn on bit perfect mode and MQA since it detected the DAC. Hell, the DAC packaging had information on how to turn this feature on. But none of it mattered because I couldn't read.

Thank you and to everyone who helped me with this.