Personally I wish there was an option to swap the behavior, make it default to unformatted text using Ctrl+V, and Ctrl+Shift+V for formatted text.
There is an option in my app to disable the formatting stripping by default. Then Ctrl+V is back to do whatever it does by default, and Win+Shift+Ins can be used to paste unformatted text.
Good point, indeed. I totally agree with this
This typically only works in Chrome and Chromium-based apps, like MSEdge or Electron-based apps.
Even then, it is not consistent. E.g., in VSCode, Ctrl+Shift+V is a shortcut for markdown preview.
Noting here that it worked in Firefox 82 (Gmail).
I didn't know that. I've only used shift-ins.
See my above comments. Ctrl+Shift+V is not a standard Windows feature. Sometimes it works, but often it doesn't, even in Chromium-based apps.