That's pretty interesting.. I already thought it was a reasonable engineering decision, though, because of one other factor: the bar for what a screen should l

That's pretty interesting.. I already thought it was a reasonable engineering decision, though, because of one other factor: the bar for what a screen should look like has gotten massively higher over the last several years. On 1x displays, yes, subpixel antialiased text absolutely looks better... but it still looks like shit compared to any modern phone, any MacBook Pro or high-res Dell laptop from the past several years, to any 27" 5K display or 20" 4K display, etc. Subpixel-AA used to be the way to get the best text rendering possible, for all normal computer users. But now, it sounds like it requires maintaining some bug-prone, nightmarish architecture, just to get slightly-better-but-still-terrible text rendering. That probably isn't worth it. Love fish shell, btw!