Is that for a specific device? For standard dual-role USB-C devices they do a negotiation that is partially based on chance which power role they land on (but they can have policy that strongly prefers one role over the other).

Whatever I read made me think it was some sort of standard.

You know more about this than me, so now I think what I stated about unplugging and re-plugging is likely incorrect advice, one step above "turn the cable around" which I think also works enough of the time that people keep trying it and repeating it as a method.

I have this issue with my power bank and my Linux machine. In the end my workaround has to put it in suspend by closing the lid then plugging in the power bank