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There was no issue until Microsoft released the Fall Creator's Update.

Many people - including me - would think that Microsoft bears some responsibility, at the least for not properly testing the new release and working with Intel to correct the problem before the new release affected lots of users.

Further, I've seen reports of problems from users of external video cards (made by AMD) not using Intel graphics - that also indicates the problem goes beyond Intel.

Microsoft is on this hook, too.

Microsoft is a platform, an operating system.  They change things from time to time.  Some are more severe changes than others.  Those that want to continue using their things with MS have to adjust their things, abandon their things, and/or submit new things.  Competitive thing manufacturers are not going to help the competition.  MS doesn't have a responsibility to ensure things continue to work as they did in the past.  MS is going to advance with or without them.  They may address problems requiring small adjustments to help things work better but the bulk of the adjustment is on the thing manufacturer.  I can guarantee you, the need for you to turn off match refresh rate setting which creates other problems is not high priority on any front.  While AMD and Intel GPU's present this problem, others like NVidia do not according to user feedback including mine. Things like this are what influence my decisions for using what I do.