One thing I noticed though was that whenever I have Firefox opened (even if minimized), and I drag a window of any application, the window in question was ever so slightly stuttering (not completely smooth). Nothing major, but a little annoying IMO. And that was with force composition pipeline enabled in NVIDIA settings. It turned out it was a Vsync issue.
So, to do this fix, as per usual, you need to enable force full composition pipeline in Nvidia Settings. Without it, based on my experience, you always get window drag lag with NVIDIA drivers (no matter the distro or desktop environment). It's basically something that you always need to enable.
Open nvidia settings with sudo privileges:
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sudo nvidia-settings
Then click "Save to X Configuration File".
"Save to X Configuration File" ensures the settings are applied automatically on boot. Otherwise, you'd need to do it ever time (this is why we opened nvidia-settings as sudo btw)
Finally, go to Linux Mint Settings > Genral > VSync Method
Set it to "None".
This is the thing that fixes the problem I mentioned at the beginning of this thread.
With this, my Linux Mint Cinnamon is noticeably smoother than the previous GNOME 42 and KDE based distros I had. It's pretty awesome. My NVIDIA driver is the latest one - 510.73.