Random thoughts...
Do not just disconnect it. Do not tape over it. That's stupid. They are placed to quickly and properly detect fires and save your life.
My microwave is vented out the roof. BS to the "no microwaves are vented outside" opinions. Go outside and look for the vent pipes on the roof, and in soffits. I have 4 - dryer and microwave out roof, 2 bathrooms via soffit. Plumbing vents are a straight up pipe; air vents are the folded over shielded flat square things; attic vents are typ much larger flat round things near the peaks.
Microwaves can be configured to vent externally, or right back into the room. If they are not removing the smoke, they are not helping. Yours might be installed incorrectly. They are heavy and awkward if you decide to fix it yourself.
Smoke detectors have a lifetime. They do weird things as they get old. There are ionization and particulate styles. Each has its purpose.
Maybe you simply got a defective detector?
I think your house is new. Call warranty. Likely 100% covered repair. But if they refuse...
Swap detectors. See if problem follows the location or device. If that detector is bad, and it means climbing a ladder a second time to replace it, and that's not your desire, buy a replacement now and climb once. If the swapped detector now alerts, highly likely that both are working. Yet still a very tiny chance both are defective. Definitive answer is to replace it with new.
Your experience is not typical. I can cook without setting them off, even without the vent running. Detector is 15ft from stove. I've tested it rarely/occasionally, it really does work, and the vent fan took care of that cooking oops quickly.
Lastly, the fire dept might help. In specific, if you have a vent on the roof for the microwave, they have thermal image cameras and can look at your roof vent temperature. You need a time when there is a temperature difference between inside and outside. It's 56deg here now. The vent would be 56 also. Now turn on the vent and the inside air should heat it up if properly venting inside air out that vent. They can see that thermally from the ground.
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