If you're a top-level speedrunner of a retro game, there's just no good alternative yet. I think even the most casual of gamers feel the difference when i

If you're a top-level speedrunner of a retro game, there's just no good alternative yet. I think even the most casual of gamers feel the difference when input/display lag is reduced, even if they don't know why their enjoyment is greater. Similar to how most folks, in a blind test, would prefer a fresh-baked pastry from a skilled baker that uses quality ingredients vs. some kind of shelf-stable junkfood pasty. They would likely not know or care about the fact that one uses high quality grassfed butter and the other uses partially hydrogenated oils and that one uses cane sugar and the other uses corn syrup. But they would enjoy one more than the other, even if they weren't able to articulate why.