Also found in the GUI:

  System > About > Advanced System Settings link > Hardware tab > Device installation settings
  Do you want to automatically download manufacturers' apps for your devices?
  set to No

So people have mostly never gotten accustomed to monitor drivers having any consideration at all, while drivers for graphics themselves and other new hardware has often had some associated downloads that people have become familiar dealing with.

Looks like LG finally took this long-standing opportunity to do some deeper enshittification than previously imagined. Simply taking advantage of a domino effect that has been lurking for decades.

A couple other related gpedit options if you don't even want the drivers themselves to change after you have gotten them correctly installed:

  gpedit.msc
  Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Internet Communication Management > Internet Communication settings
  Turn off Windows Update device driver searching
  Set to enabled
  OK
  
  gpedit.msc
  Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Manage updates offered from Windows Update > 
  Do not include drivers with Windows Update
  Set to enabled
  OK