Tearing and hidpi is why I left Linux for Windows between 2012 ans 2022. Once wayland was good enough I returned. Tearing is awful, and should be opt in (which wayland provides), not opt out.

Conversely, I much prefer lowest latency at the cost tearing; when I'm forced to use windows I generally disabled the compositor there too whenever i could (I certainly don't use one under Linux and that's one of my reasons for being there). I find macOS unuseable, even on brand new top-end mac studios the input lag and slow reaction of the OS to... any user input, is frightening when you're used to your computer reacting instantly.