I’m having none of the issues you mentioned. Did you update every driver from asus’s website+bios with nvidia drivers? I have scar 16 4080 with miniled and everything is working fine without issues like dimming etc.
Nice, now there is only this problem left https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/gaming-notebooks/rog-strix-scar-18-gsync-and-screen-off-will-balck-screen/td-p/943531