Here's where my confusion comes in regarding this and if someone could correct my inaccuracies, that'd be great.

From my understanding, the point of packet injection is to force the access point...

Seriously, this problem is growing long in the tooth. I have searched high and low and tons of people claim that aireplay-ng works fine just using the iwlwifi drivers. The -9 test is the only thing...

While I appreciate the desire to prevent those with improper motive, there are still those of us without those intentions who could use some help with this :)

I'm prepared to use the old RAW...