"Picking out a monitor based on your GPU means you have gone full retard."

There, I said it.  Back in the glory-days of "CRT, only CRT, and nothing but CRT, so help me god"--you didn't have the false gods of refresh rate.  You didn't have the idolatry of HDR.  You slapped whatever GPU you could afford into your rig, and prayed you got over 20 FPS.  You'd ping resolution as high as it would go--and hope it stayed playable.  30fps was a pipe-dream in many cases.  Nobody cared about monitors coming in 1024x768 or 1280x960--because if you were LUCKY you might be able to do 800x600 in game.  And having more wasn't going to cost you a damn thing.

Fast forward to now, and not a day goes by without some mouth-breather asking about "what monitor will work best with gpu XYZ?"  The fuck you mean "monitor will work best"?  You buy something that is WAY more capable than your system, and you aspire to its capabilities.  You don't buy a new goddamn monitor every time you refresh your PC because you bought the last one to 98% tolerance of your GPU capability.  Scaling?  Fuck off!  If your game is so atrociously bad that you can't game in 1440p or whatever bizarre resolution you wish to--on a 2160p monitor; then I submit to you that said game is shit and not worth playing.  This is 2022.  The gaming industry has more revenue that the entertainment industry--there are PLENTY of other games to play.  Nor should you be propping up bad coding/programming that won't scale--with your hard-earned consumer dollars.

This is why the industry stagnates.  You have overzealous zombies blindly worshiping the red-herring of refresh rate.  News flash: everything over 120hz that isn't 3D is essentially worthless to 99% of the gaming world.  And unless your annual income depends on that extra Hz, I will put money on there being virtually 0 chance of you seeing the difference between 120 and 144hz or 144 and 160 Hz.  So instead of affordable 8k panels--or even affordable 120hz 4k panels--we are stuck with BRAND FREAKING NEW 1080p panels still being offered in 2022.  Do you want a casio calculator wristwatch with that antique too?