How on Earth do I get Geth working with Prysm???

I'm trying to set up an Ethereum node as a hobby. I can not for the life of me get Geth to begin syncing. It just sits at 0 and claims there is no beacon client.. Yet, oddly enough, prysm will be running at the same time and it says it connects to geth on port 8551 with no problems.

With increased verbosity on geth, I see the problem seems to be related to repeatedly failing the RLPx handshake with other peers. Although when I check `admin.peers.length` in the geth attach shell I can see I've got a dozen or so peers. However the output of `eth.syncing` shows all values idling at 0. I've confirmed the issues are not related to my JWT and it is not a network/port forwarding related issue.

Does anyone else have this problem with Geth? I'm ready to throw in the towel and switch to a Besu/Teku setup but damn I hate walking away from something like this without understanding why it isn't working

For reference here is my Geth command:
./geth –syncmode snap –http –http.api eth,net,engine,admin –authrpc.port 8551 –authrpc.jwtsecret ~/ethereum/jwt.hex

and my Prysm command:
./prysm.sh beacon-chain –execution-endpoint=http://localhost:8551 –jwt-secret=~/ethereum/jwt.hex

Please let me know if anyone has any advice or suggestions, because I (and ChatGPT lol) are all out of ideas.