It's sort of like how only software engineers care about GB vs GiB. The average consumer will not care about some cropping here and there, but someone working w

It's sort of like how only software engineers care about GB vs GiB. The average consumer will not care about some cropping here and there, but someone working with graphics or video will. And I suspect that anyone looking to drop nearly a thousand dollars on a monitor is going to care deeply about its actual specs (ie "can this monitor render my project at native resolution?").