Any Jeep technicians out there?

Leave it be…. It’s smarter than all of us and has a mind of its own. I agree that the short trip deal is probably the cause, but the system is working “as designed”….. that’s kind of like “normal good” and “normal bad” in the industry.
While I haven’t pursued this issue on the KL Cherokee, I have on a couple Wranglers. Tech center was of no help and we tried different things for over a week on a Wrangler that was nearing the end of his basic warranty and the customer thought it “should work”….. well it was working. Just not the way he wanted it to. He needed his vehicle for a jeep trip to Utah (5hr drive) so he picked it up. He called us the following Tuesday and the charging message in the start stop display was gone and it would indeed shut off when he came to a stop.

Fwiw we have 2 19 KL Trailhawks (wife & daughter). They eat a battery every two years out here in the desert. I put an Optima yellow top in the wife’s ride back in June so we’ll see how that test goes. One thing about that product line is that an “iffy” battery can cause some pretty interesting electrical issues. Been a ton of them over the years that have been remedied with a new fresh box of voltage.