Protestants who object to Purgatory don’t understand (or refuse to understand or listen) to what it really is and the teaching of the Church throughout the centuries. Here is a great explanation, with scripture references and a history of the doctrine.
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/purgatory
Read and understand or keep throwing out slogans. Y’all’s choice.
It does not provide any SCRIPTURAL basis for Purgatory.
It only provides Catholic misinterpretation and assumption that certain things in scripture must mean “purgatory” or something like, yet none of the scriptures point to it.
Being dead before Christ’s return and yet being raised by Christ after his return, nor praying for the dead, implies they are anywhere but dead-in-sleep-with G-d, and nowhere else. And THAT does not mean G-d does not hear the prayers.
“Purgatory” is like Physics “dark matter” - it must be there even though we cannot see it pointed out in scripture, so we assume certain things we do not quite understand MUST mean (some “place”) so we call it purgatory.