Where are the 36"-38" 16:9 monitors?

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Can't say I've extensively researched this, but took a look and there seems to a huge hole between 32" and 43" monitors @ 16:9.

I have a 34" Ultrawide. I was wondering about changing to a 16:9 monitor that would preserve the width I've become used to, so I wouldn't have to downgrade in that area to get more vertical goodness.

Where once ultrawide gave extra room on the sides, now it feels more like it's deducting from the vertical.

Using an online calculator, surprisingly it would only take a ~36+" monitor at 16:9 to match the horizontal of my 34" ultrawide.

So where are these monitors? I can either downgrade to a 32" 16:9 or go hyper-massive at 43" from what I'm seeing (and arguably those 43" seem to be more TV-like than PC-monitor like)?
 
Don't think I'll go going ultrawide again. I was an early adopter getting a 34" Dell U3415W in 2014, using SLI GTX 970s to run it. Previously I had some random 25" 1080p monitor.

Can't believe it's been eight years. We're in a different world now, and although the resolution has held up pretty well, many games have a lot more vertical eye candy. 4K TVs especially dwarf the relatively stagnant 34" UWQHD standard. Ultrawide now feels like a car with a bog standard windscreen, while large 16:9s feel like cars with panoramic windscreens/roofs. How the tables have turned.

Shame there's a huge hole between 32" and 43" 16:9s (with the larger sizes either being TV panels or extremely expensive with 4K and 100hz+ refresh, the latter also being a must).
 
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