This is not about being able to see the gaps between the pixels. Anti-aliased vs not anti-aliased I'll grant you, because the whole point of anti-aliasing is to

This is not about being able to see the gaps between the pixels. Anti-aliased vs not anti-aliased I'll grant you, because the whole point of anti-aliasing is to approximate what the eye would see if it really was averaging a real image over the solid angle taken up by each individual pixel.