Not allegedly, it's quite true. CRT's tech approach adds gradients, depth to the colors and softens sharp pixel corners. Any sprite based game will look richer on a CRT, but filters are eh 80% good enough

Not just NES; games were largely designed with CRTs in mind all the way through PS2/Xbox/Gamecube console generation!

Legitimately would love a decent CRT TV (and room for it) to be able to authentically play Point Blank again - light gun games of that era only work on CRTs.

One thing I find crazy is that at least half of all monitors today are the same res as CRTs from a quarter century ago. I had a $250 no-name brand CRT that handled 1600x1200 quite beautifully in the 1990s.

Yup, and if having no use for one still means you don't need one.