Indeed, I gave up on the cheap GPIB stuff back in the days before 'plug N play'. It was always far more trouble than it was worth for the money we saved so I learned to stick with good old National Instruments products and avoid the headaches. The people I work with now have been using Measurement Computing's cards with great success. They're actually a subsidiary of NI though so I'd expect them to play nice together.
LabVIEW Pro Dev & Measurement Studio Pro (VS Pro) 2019 - Unfortunately now moving back to C#, .NET, Python due to forced change to subscription model by NI. 8^{