LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] buggy MS Intellimouse driver?

We use many GNU/Linux with MS Intellimouse (four-button) from late 1990s Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 (mostly relatively new overstock) to recent years so-called Classic Intellimouse. Since 2010s we've had more & more problems with these and I wonder if the driver has serious/critical bugs.
        We've used them (since 1997) on Slackware, Devuan, Kubuntu, Mint, KDE Neon GNU/Linuxes and I also tested OpenSUSE, RedHat/clones (Rocky, Fedora), Gentoo, Arch (SystemRescue) GNU/Linuxes.
        Daily on every single one, occasionally/regularly mouse moves intermittently/'choppy' or even stops for maybe 10 to 30+secs or just permanently until unplug & replug or restarting X or rebooting. It happens with both Intellimouse Explorer & 'Classic'.
        My parents thought the problem might be mouse-pad, so they removed it and used mouse on table, which didn't fix anything. We noticed Intellimouse Classic doesn't seem to work much at all (unusable) on standard/classic blue mouse-pads but works on a white one (better than on a table that looks like woodgrain).
        I also use plain two-button USB MS mice mostly on servers I don't use GUI much if at all, so don't know it's a general MS mouse problem but their other mice have different drivers (when you install Slackware you select from MS Intellimouse or other USB or PS/2 mice).
        We also briefly tested Wayland possibly with same problem, but don't consider it 'production ready' for many reasons (nor do some/many others).
        The 'choppy' Intellimouse problem has happened across at least six different desktop PCs (and maybe some laptops) on every GNU/Linux they have/had. I don't notice the problem on FreeBSD UNIX (which of course originally is designed/standardized/engineered with a plan ahead of time instead of 'make it up as you go along').
        Did anyone else have this happen and is there any solution or anywhere I can report bugs?