Just giggled as my last meme mentioned trouble with displays and appropriately, a large chunk of the replies were “well MY displays work just fine!” (And charmingly, many were thoughts of things to check, other distros etc. It’s a very kind community, though that may also be the fediverse.)
Your experience has been wildly different than mine.
I had similar experiences a decade ago, but I don’t feel that I have accepted any trade-offs in the last five years.
If anything, I must seem naive to my peers because using the same tools on Mac or Windows is so much harder, and I forget sometimes.
Have you tried Linux recently?