One such limitation is the inability of conventional Kohn-Sham DFT methods to describe London dispersion forces, herein simply referred to as "dispersion". As this limitation has been well-known since the mid-1990s, various dispersion-corrected DFT techniques have been developed for the ground state. Additive DFT-D type and van-der-Waals DFT VV10 corrections have stood the test of time-reducing errors across extensive ground-state benchmarking -and are currently recommended for use in all ground-state DFT applications. Despite their success in the ground state, dispersion corrections remain largely untested for excited states. The handful of studies exploring dispersion corrections for excited-state interactions have highlighted the limitations of ground statebased models. Collectively, there is growing support for the development of dispersion corrections optimised explicitly for excited states.