lp:1477106 is another bug where this is being discussed (but didn't get much attention). I agree that this is due to somewhat broken behaviour of gtk3 and not cups-filter or avahi. In any case, an updated GTK 3 patch for Focal is available in the following for those who came here with this problem:
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