Given the latency of CRT compared to modern panels, yes on that aspect alone. Though GUI's and the like would be the main aspect for preception, the added eyec

Given the latency of CRT compared to modern panels, yes on that aspect alone. Though GUI's and the like would be the main aspect for preception, the added eyecandy, then things like security, encryption... The CPU gods giveth with one hand and the software gods take more with the other hand - has played out many a time. Then the early stuff, machine code to the metal easy as less to know, today we have just fragments of library's used in coding languages that exceed are larger and than early operating systems. So the whole ability to know the whole machine inside and out is very much lost as even if you did learn it all, things would've moved on faster than you could learn. WHich is another aspect, a user could almost know to the bit what their machine was doing, today, so many aspects and with managment cpu's in the background with microcode you can never pick apart, and more grunt and processing than early more simpler systems, the odd's of knowing the level of detail and being that intouch with what's ticking underneath is lost. Bit like moving from manual gear changing (stick as some call it) over to automatic. You lose that connection as it is obfuscated from you. Akin to flying a plane by wire or as is the case today, by electronics - you lose that level of being in touch.