@emsquared have you tried holding back the apt package for kernel? Yesterday's Pop! kernel will be more current than Mint or similar for another year or two at least I bet. You could also switch to the Ubuntu HWE package which wouldn't lock you to a single version, but would receive updates more conservatively. You're on a very new chipset, is that part of the issue? My old Intel 10G PCIe card hasn't seemed to ever be affected.