This in response to an otherwise very positive experience report that singles out a fault in what should be a really, really boring, unexciting, stable subsyste

This in response to an otherwise very positive experience report that singles out a fault in what should be a really, really boring, unexciting, stable subsystem on "known good" hardware that somehow, in 2018, is still not working fluidly. Seriously, if you're cherry-picking hardware, I think you could be forgiven for landing on this laptop, and yet it doesn't work in a fairly obvious way.