Is there any point in buying a CRT now with the availability of shaders like CRT-Royale and CRT Raster-Scanning? The downside to the raster-scanner seems that you need high refresh rate to properly emulate the impulse nature of CRTs. My current monitor only does 144hz, but it's 27 inches and 4k so the image looks great, and I've been using the 1100 zone backlight with HDR on it a lot.

I used CRTs on the tail end of their existence as a child, but I can't really remember too well what it was like, other than some of them giving me headaches if I looked at them too long.

I've been playing older RTS's and other games (C&C, Marathon) lately and I took a surface level look at the CRT Database. I noticed all the higher resolution (relatively speaking, for the era) monitors with decent refresh rates are ludicrously expensive.

I can't really justify buying a monitor and having it take up space if I can't use it for other modern games too, that's why I'm hung up on the resolution part.

Should I just chill and wait for microLED, or better OLEDs and emulate a CRT? Or is it worth trying to actually get one? Again, the resolution issue makes me hesitate as I want to be able to drive it on modern games too.

If yes, what's a desktop CRT that I can get a decent experience with and not get raped to death by scalpers?