Bought this and tried a HP Thunderbolt 4 docking station to upgrade a older HP USB-C/A Universal Dock G2. Nether one of them worked with my older Macbook or newer Alienware. Enshitification at its finest.
I continually got the "peripheral connected/disconnected/no wait connected/now disconnected" sound in Windows when my non-HP laptop was locked. It just wasn't quite compatible. And the power button didn't work to turn on my machine. Oh well.