

I personally think portrait monitors, like a standard modern smartphone, would resolve most of these problems.
Also for programming, most IDEs make good use of the horizontal space and expect a roughly 16:9 screen where the IDE takes up most of the space on that screen. Not that you can’t just minimise the side panels but still, it’s a helpful feature of the software.
As for why portrait isn’t the default, I dunno, but if you start using a portrait monitor at work you’ll probably get some coworkers following suit if it’s such an improvement.
In that case I suggest documenting things to prove it’s not you making the noise, and escalate to local government/council/etc