Traveler: Traveler: Lack of DP 2.0 is a bit of a bummer, but the standard these days seems to be DP 1.4 anyway so it shouldn’t be a problem. It’s just not as future-proof as expected.

It really makes absolutely no difference as far as future-proofing is concerned. DisplayPort 1.4 supports everything this monitor will be capable of, and short of changing out hardware components (which isn’t a realistic scenario, really) no changes can be made that would make this monitor require more than DisplayPort 1.4 can offer.

On a graphics card the story may be different. Your current monitor might not have features that surpass DP1.4, but you could swap it out with a newer model with newer hardware that requires higher bandwidth, or you could upgrade other components in the PC that would make currently unused features of an existing DP2.0 monitor feasible for use.

So though DisplayPort 2.0 could be considered ‘future-proofing’ on a graphics card, on a monitor, effectively, it would just be a shiny badge we can put on the box that we can point at and say “Look! Our monitor supports this new thing and theirs doesn’t!”. It would have no practical benefit to anyone, not now, and not in the future…

The same logic applies to HDMI 2.1, which is why our HDMI 2.0a is also in no way an issue.