I, for my part, have never met a German thinking of Austrians as cute or Bavarians

aggressively remind everyone of how they don’t want to be associated with anything German all the time.

Interesting, where do you live? Where did you meet Austrians? I've honestly never heard that opinion before.

I know it sounds weird but honestly every single german I've talked to about Austria in Germany either thought Austria is basicly Germany, and/or was as astonished that we for example have a different name and procedure for Abitur, or didn't believe me that yes even our news ancors will say "Buben" and "Kasten" instead of "Jungs" and "Schrank", and while it linguisticly is "just a dialect" it is our official language that we learn at school.