Slow Performance without proper Power Adapter after update on M4800?

Intermittently, since I purchased my laptop 3.5 years ago, I have noticed a problem where I plug in my official Dell 180W power supply into my Dell Precision M4800 laptop, and the Dell software would inform me that the power supply wasn't recognized and that it was under 150W.  But, this usually resolved itself after a few minutes, or else I could unplug and re-plug the power supply and everything would be fine.

The bad news when this bogus error happened was that my CPU clock was slowed from 3.5 GHz to 0.35 GHz (a factor of 10!), which essentially made the PC nearly unusable.

A couple of weeks ago, my laptop underwent a software update, and now 9 times out of 10, the official Dell 180W power supply which was shipped with my laptop directly from Dell is incorrectly recognized as being unknown and under 150W.

This is clearly a software error on Dell's part, because it started occurring immediately after the software update and doesn't resolve by itself any longer, and also does not resolve by unplugging and re-plugging the power supply.

I would really appreciate it if someone at Dell would read this post and actually look into getting this problem fixed.  I am not the only person who has experienced this problem, as there are at least 2 other posts (and multiple responses) from as far back as 2014 with a similar issue.  As a pointer of where to look:  in the communication between the laptop power drivers and the power supply, either the drivers or the power supply is causing the problem.  It shouldn't be too hard to modify the driver software to properly handle the situation and avoid this debilitating roll back of the CPU clock speed.

As one other poster pointed out:  the M4800 is only drawing 35W, why, then, do you need a 150W minimum power supply attached to the bloody machine??  Maybe the battery can't be quickly charged with a 50W power supply, but surely the clock speed doesn't need to be cut by a factor of 10 in even that extreme power situation.

Sheesh, guys, it's a Dell laptop, a Dell power supply, and Dell software:  it certainly seems like there can't be any finger pointing at some mysterious 3rd party misbehaving and magically causing this problem with Dell having zero ability to do anything about it.  Seriously, can't you get this right?