The argument isn’t “CRTs are better”. You’re right — they’re not. The argument is that pixel art from that era was designed around the specific limitations of C

The argument isn’t “CRTs are better”. You’re right — they’re not. The argument is that pixel art from that era was designed around the specific limitations of CRTs, and takes advantage of the specific way that CRTs would mess with the pixels. This is similar to what happened with electric guitars — you can make cheap amps with barely any distortion these days, but that sucks horribly for playing music composed around the presence of distortion. E.g. amp distortion tends to add a bunch of harmonic content that makes major/minor triads sound pretty bad, which is why power chords are popular. On the other hand, power chords sound pretty terrible without distortion, because they need that extra harmonic content to sound good!