I remember long nights on CRTs, occasionally glancing away from them to look out the window or across the room and having this weird feeling hit me of how "sharp" and "detailed" everything is, like your brain having adapted to the blurriness and then suddenly hit with the sharpness of reality. I also had a very short stint as TV repairman (when your TV broke you used to call a guy to fetch it and then repair it at his workshop and bring it back repaired, can youngsters even imagine? Yes I'm a thousand years old in minecraft years) and hold onto my last daily-driver CRT a long time until it really became impractical. I often had two CRTs running (connected to either one or two computers) and then a CRT TV or a stereo for distraction and generic sounds, something computers wouldn't be capable of in a very practical sense for another decade at that point. The power I consumed then would give me anxiety now but back then electricity simply was that cheap. It didn't matter.
With all that, I generally do not miss CRTs and I love obsolete tech otherwise. In my experience, most people that dislike LCDs just never owned a good one with a decent panel, good, even backlight and high pixel density. It's not one of the ~$100 1080p ones most people have and the real important stats of an LCD are often in the fine print that isn't advertised. CRTs can't compete. Seriously. Also the late model CRT TVs were an absolute BITCH to repair, mostly because manufacturers started outsourcing and stopped giving a shit. It all doesn't matter anymore because even the more nicely designed sets you won't find e.g. a spare flyback transformer easily anymore for and a CRT is something that just wears down. Just how it is.
That said, I still have an old Triniton screen, a big-ass Braun TV that was a high-end, status-symbol kind of device in the 80s and a small, old CRT TV an neighbor threw out. All in working, good condition. But that's only because I'm basically an old tech hoarder.
