If money isn't a problem, consider going OLED. There's a couple of 27" models hitting the market and once you go OLED, it's hard to go back.
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Money is no problem. I'll include that in my search. I guess burn in isn't a problem anymore?
I'd say burn-in is definitely still a potential problem, but most of the manufacturers are putting great warranties on the panels just in case. Mine came with a 3 year warranty. I have suffered no burn-in after a year, but I only use HDR mode when in games (becuase Windows' HDR is garbage). Still worth it.
I've been using AOC CU34G2X, the 34 inch ultrawide mind you, and it's been great. You don't get a lot of bells and whistles but panel is solid, the refresh rate keeps up so I don't notice much ghosting and colors after a bit of calibration looks great. I think it's a nice price per performance monitor.
You could also check out hardware unboxed channel too, they do a lot of monitor reviews.
I love ultrawide for work, and like it for FPS and racing. However, anything with a mouse driven user interface where I travel more to click action bars, shortcuts, etc. gets on my nerves. Then there's older games that don't support ultrawide that display black bars instead. I think there's more to like about a larger 16:9 for me when gaming is concerned.
Do you have any advice on dealing with these issues I have? I reckon it doesn't bother everyone.
Black bars don't bother me much and as for games like RTS or SIM type games, I never had much of a issue with it since I'm used to keyboard shortcuts and dpi changes in the fly with a decent mouse at this point.