Gaming laptop recommendations for girlfriend!

Hello! I'm looking for decent recommendations on gaming laptops, my girlfriend has one that her dad bought her about a year ago but considering the specs, its relatively fair to say he got scammed. (1k for a laptop that had 8gbs of ram, and could hardly function smoothly with her art program open.)

I've given it a minor upgrade in the form of additional ram to help it run better, but I was wanting to save up for a gift in the form of a new laptop for us to game together. She will play games like Monster Hunter and the like from time to time and we do play modded minecraft together, usually pretty heavily modded. I want to be able to play more games with her though and there's some that she's interested in that her laptop would struggle with.

Right now lets say semi-flexible budget up to 2k, something that will generally play nice with art programs (As she does commissions as well as art for fun). A tower build would be a future thing for when we have a home together, as she currently lives 40 minutes away and the laptop lets us play our PC games together and she brings said laptop to school with her fairly often.

Think the only other thing I can think of is she doesn't necessarily care for super loud or bright keys. Backlight through the keys is great, just doesn't like the entirety of the keys to be lit up like a christmas tree lol.

I was mainly looking for recommendations because my old gaming laptop (An MSI model, though I can't remember exact specifics) had an issue where the hinge for the screen ended up breaking due to the cheap plastic used, and I want to avoid these sorts of issues. (I know to generally avoid the likes of Alienware, and I heard a little while back something about the Asus TUF series having a problem? Though I didn't know much about it.)

Sorry about the super long post, but if anyone is able to hit me up with some recommendations I'd be super grateful! (I'm relatively knowledgeable of PC's but I'm by no means a buff, hence turning to y'all.)