I use classic shell, and I have the frame rate reduction on. Yes I can minimize all to task bar, but when I am working with many programs I don't want to have to manually open them all again every time I tab in and out of the game to check if someone found a hunt. And regardless like I said the taskbar refuses to hide even when I do that because the game flags itself as active.

We shouldn't have to use workarounds regardless. There is absolutely no reason the game shouldn't minimize when you click the minimize button, or preferably just minimize automatically when you alt-tab. And it was never a problem in ARR.