Just a thought, most of the application can be scrolled to the desired section in the page by using click activity in background,that will get you the screen you need.
scrolling has not caused any issue so far, there’s a less efficient approach by pressing the down arrow button on screen until the required element appears.
There are quite a few use cases requires scrolling and can be achieved easily, you mentioned abouts GPU I’ve run on older laptops and it didn’t give any issue. what exactly you are struggling with?