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Maybe carpet the stairs in the dead of night.
You joke, but I’d be seriously considering guerrilla / gorilla gluing some rubber treads onto the stairs. Safer for everyone, quieter for you. Also a cheap experiment, and it’s not like you’d actually get in trouble for it. If I lived in the block I’d just assume the maintenance people had been told to comply with some new reg.
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I reckon probably not.
The sound of steps will be transmitting through the solid materials that link your flat to the stairs which is likely going to include not just your wall but the ceiling and floor too. To get a substantial reduction you’d therefore need to float not just a new wall but potentially a new floor and ceiling.
I do kinda like the idea of dynamat and plasterboard, the different materials ought to baffle a good range of frequencies but as it sounds like you know for a significant reduction you’d need a new solid wall fully isolated from the existing solid wall with air between.
Maybe carpet the stairs in the dead of night.