“…1 There exist a plethora of models featuring DM-DE interactions, usually referred to as interacting dark energy (IDE) models, most of which phenomenological in nature. For an incomplete selection of works examining IDE models from the modelbuilding, theoretical, and observational perspectives, see for instance [32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,…”