I force texture filtering off for all of my products because I can never tell when it will cause issues for the user. It should have been left off by default and used only as an option by the user to begin with.

As for artifacts with the sync filter, maybe my eyes are going bad, but seems hardly noticeable. At larger resoultuions perhaps it is more noticeable, but I would guess it is something that could be touched up simple enough in post if it's so minimal that it can be hardly visible at 512x512. Not to mention I need a new monitor, this one sucks (it's old and has seen it's better days) ! LOL