Skylake seems to be a fundamentally better chip with improved IMC, 3200+ usually is the maximum HW-E can handle, still DDR4 wouldn't go prime until Skylake-E hits the market.
No you're not alone, been using 16:10 at 24', and now at U3014, I hate it when several years ago they reversed back to 16:9 because of the panel cost, personally going for 16:9 4K monitor is like "upgrading" from quad-channel to next-gen triple/double-channel RAM, of which the latter could be...
I literally cried when the review said about those 1366 guys, after so many years finally comes a platform I could say farewell to my beloved (yet still strong) 920 OC, about to jump on the new ship.