In at least PS 2026 and 2025, the profiles list in the Print dialog is profoundly broken

The list of profiles shown in the Print dialog should match that visible in the Convert to Profile dialog.  In thirty years of working with color management, inventing tools for color management, developing software for color management, teaching color management, and using it, I've never seen a profiles list that's such a mess.  It fails to load at least most of the profiles stored in every single one of the correct profile directories.  But it does load profiles that can't be found in any of those directories or in packages installed in locations like /Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter2/ICCProfiiles/[package], except that on one of my two Macs (both M1 machines running Sonoma) it does list that package's 45 profiles in their own section right at the top.

Pleases don't try to foolishly second guess what profiles we can or should be able to select for any kind of conversion.  It's up to us to pick a printer profile and we absolutely must not be arbitrarily limited to picking ones supplied by the printer manufacturer.  I'm seeing tons of non-printer, and totally irrelevant profile in the list, yet can't get a perfectly good printer profile to show in the list no matter how many places I put it.  Not even after re-launches and entire reboots.  But even that isn't working on my laptop, seeing the package profiles from Epson (and yes, I did re-install the driver but that didn't help).  Epson says the profile package can only be installed as part of the driver installation process.

This is a crucial function (building a correct list of profiles incorporating all or at least all of the printer profiles in each of the principal profile directories), and its failure is stopping me from accomplishing my work.  Yes, I realize I can pre-convert, but the point of this exercise is to facilitate a thorough analysis of the entire macOS printing situation since it got worse with Ventura, with a great many things not working right.  This is the seventh or eighth broken thing I've encountered so far.  To run this down, you need to check out which profiles from where are showing up in the list.  You may have to configure a system so as to have unique profiles of several types in each of the several standard profiles directories.  

Surely many people have long since noticed what a mess this list is?  I've long since abandoned PS for printing, on account of the move to eliminate the No Color Management option, else I'd have seen this long ago.