I mostly agree with your post and its spirit. But I've dabbled enough with microcontrollers and custom consoles to say that vga is completely doable at 800x600

I mostly agree with your post and its spirit. But I've dabbled enough with microcontrollers and custom consoles to say that vga is completely doable at 800x600 32k colors on a 7$ microcontroller : https://github.com/makapuf/bitbox https://github.com/makapuf/bitbox