While wrestling with another problem that my custom kernel has that GENERIC doesn't, I double-checked the Xorg/intel behavior while running GENERIC. The behavior is the same: the intel driver with "TearFree" on with or without "AccelMethod" "SNA" is only marginally improved but still doesn't draw properly. Using "Driver" "modesetting" works very well.
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