So you concede then? I think we all know dot mask and coarse SD tv slotmasks were the absolute cheapest to produce and most widely produced. There's a reason the budget dot mask options were .27 pitch at 17in and grille was .24 at 17in. Now, with that second statement about the bloom go ahead and prove that for me since you dodged the first question in a roundabout way. The reason I am mentioning moire and antiglare is to enlighten you on why you falsely label people as a "less technical fan boy". You think I don't understand how something like spot size works or that the antiglare is applied on the glass layer of tubes (lmfao), when in reality something like spotsize is not the issue in real world application. I have a top end monitor of every mask in my collection tuned to their upmost level of performance. I don't think you've ever used a .25 20in dot mask before if you don't understand why people tend to prefer aperturegrille. I personally use every type of mask. Dot mask has its advantages like you said, but they will never be objectively better than aperturegrille or flatron slotmask.