This is why your external monitor looks awful on an M1 Mac - A User wrote an open source solution

• DisableMonitor

  7 1,218 0.0

  Discontinued Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac.

• BetterDummy

  121 4,920 9.5 Swift

  Discontinued Unlock your displays on your Mac! Smooth scaling, HiDPI unlock, XDR/HDR extra brightness upscale, DDC, brightness and dimming, dummy displays, PIP and lots more! [Moved to: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay]

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• RDM

  60 4,054 0.0 Objective-C++

  Discontinued Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions

Does Retina Display Menu fix this issue too? It allows you to set custom resolutions on both main display and external displays and choose if you want to use Retina mode or not. Not sure if it works on M1 Macs, though. https://github.com/avibrazil/RDM

• MonitorControl

  191 26,066 7.0 Swift

  🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

  

I'm now using MonitorControl to that end, nothing else worked and this is pretty stable. BetterDummy's dev is apparently one of MC's devs as well, makes sense as the two are explicitly compatible. I did have to swap out f.lux for Night Shift for it to remain stable as f.lux would get in the way with the color profile and MC would warn me to disable it.

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