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[Article author here]
Interesting.
Because this is something I have not wanted or ever even heard of. I haven't worried about refresh rates since the CRT days, and the *early* CRT days at that. When I was rocking 2×15" monitors in dual-head on two Matrox Millennium cards, about 26 years ago. I was rather proud of that setup, built on a budget of about 50p.
This shows something important: one person's pointlessly minor edge case is someone else's critical _sine qua non_.
Me, I want a vertical taskbar. That is my deal breaker. Xfce does it well, LXDE OK -- and Mate, Cinnamon, KDE, and all the others fail with various degrees of brokenness.
But recently I've needed different fractional scalings on different screens, and that really sorts the wheat from the chaff. I've found 3 desktops can do it: KDE (no ta), GNOME (ew), and Cinnamon (OK, if I must.)
My core feature is your needless frippery, I suspect, and _vice versa_. But it's an important point all the same.