Oh hey, this got replies after a few days! I had no idea. Thanks everybody!
Where are you finding all the mice with tilting scroll wheels?
Almost every decent Logitech mouse, for instance.
Get a g700s, yeah the scroll wheel can move left and right but it's not a normal motion and I don't see how it would interfere with middle clicking.
Already have one. It does for me. I want it to go down, and only down, regardless of whether I push it slightly off the side or not. Buttons without horizontal give feel way more reliable to me.
"no DPI switchers"
Well ****... there's plenty of crap without that at Walmart, Office Depot, etc. That comes in handy switching resolutions... going into UEFI and not having crazy sensitivity since my desktop is at 4K vs the 640x480 UEFI res.
But ****... it's useless to you, so why even ask since you've got it all figured out???
I would recommend an old new stock g400s since it's close to the g500 style, BUT NOOO!! It has a DPI switch.... CAN'T USE THAT THEN.. arghhhh!!!!
No idea what your tone is here, or why.
To clarify the DPI thing: I'll deal with having a button I don't need, but what I can't deal with is having to run software to remap things. I'm on Linux and that's often not possible. I've also had mice where the DPI setting isn't retained on plugging the mouse back in, which is seriously annoying.