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Christian Hergert, the dev in this story, has posted a patch for vte related to these experiments, here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2553#note_185015...

First we make it fast. Then we remove the FPS restriction. I would be very surprised if I don't manage to nuke that as part of this work.

Well, it fits in with the bunch of folks that deem system tray icons, application theming, fractional scaling or window title bars unnecessary to arbitrarily limit their terminal's performance, while the competition has no such penalty.

It sounds like you're pretty biased, and that's fine. You do you.

But I'm pretty sure that code pre-dates reliable access to vertical sync from applications. Either via XProperty notifications from the compositor, XPRESENT, or actual glSwapBuffers() and/or equiavalents.