You forget the main issue of CRT's. Radiation.
I don't know the cause but working more than 6 hours a day on a CRT gave me migrens, bad moods, my eyes hurt and so on. I use an LCD for two years now. It is far from perfect, but it is much better to work and play on for hours.
The response time thing is very interesting. You know, I did notice ghosting in the firts day. But your eyes and brain gets use to it, and I do not notice it anymore. Also people said they notice it and it bothers them when we watched videos, but I do not notice that anymore.
There are several questions for me, now, when I try to replace my 2 year old LCD (a 18" - yes, 18", must have been a protoype or something - AG Neovo S18, with a 25 ms MVA panel. It has large view angles, 170/170, it has a antireflective and protective glass panel. (NeoV Filter)
First: do I want a 25 ms 170/170 panel with good contrast and 8 bit color depth, or do I want a 4-8 ms panel with the usual 150/135 view angles, 6 bit color depth ? Also there is the resoution question; I will use the monitor to work on, so a 1440 x 900 wide 19" LCD is tempting. But I also play games, and 1440x 900 is just not a standard resolution.
Also, my 2 years old monitor has display issues , like the crystals tend to tire, they ghost images displayed for a long time, like menus, and HUD si in games and other applications.
The backlights usually tend to lose their power, and this leads to a costly replacement. I guess most people will just buy another monitor when this happens. Liftime for a CRT is much longer. Don't get me wrong, I'll never use a CRT again, except for DCC, photo editing and such tasks, where color accuracy is very very important.
Good thing is that LCD are much cheaper now. I did pay more then 600 USD on a 18" LCD in late 2003, now the price droped to half of this amount.