It's not at all hard to find EDID bugs that affect Windows and macOS, especially where variable refresh rate or HDR or 10-bit color or DSC are involved. And in those situations, working around the monitor bug tends to be just as hard (Windows) or impossible (Mac).
Indeed my Dell is treated with some absurd sharpen filters because EDID says its a TV and macOS wants to "help". IIRC, there was a similar story posted to HN about it, involving debugging EDID and applying an override