I understand how someone can appreciate ClearType on a normal DPI screen, but the techniques that ClearType uses to maintain sharpness are completely useless on

I understand how someone can appreciate ClearType on a normal DPI screen, but the techniques that ClearType uses to maintain sharpness are completely useless on hiDPI. On hiDPI you can have your cake and eat it too: accurately rendered glyphs with no sharpness compromises. Windows may change to accomodate hiDPI displays, but it make take a decade or more given how Microsoft prioritizes backward compatibility, and most computers in the wild have low resolution screens. MacOS had always optimized for typeface fidelity, and the results were blurry on low resolution screens, although you got used to it pretty quickly. But now with Retina screens that problem has been solved. Whereas Windows used a hack (ClearType) to make type more readable at the expense of fidelity, and now it can't use high resolution screens to the fullest because now applications assume certain things about font rendering. There's a lesson to be learned here about sticking to your values and software design, but I don't know what it is exactly.