> how many people were complaining about that over the last decade?

Quite a few. These articles tend to make the rounds when it comes up: https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ Perception varies from person to person, but going from my 144hz monitor to my old 60hz work laptop is so noticeable to me that I switched it from a composited wayland DE to an X11 WM.