My wife the TV engineer says the same thing. Tho I have noticed it tends to not be as god-awful looking in recent years. I suspect the increase in refresh rates must have helped.
Did I ever tell you guys the story of the quack chiropractor I went to some years ago before my doctor gave up on trying to save the HMO money and we did back surgery? (side note: happily he also gave up before I was irretrievably hooked on vicodin!)
This is NOT a general "chiropractors are quacks" story. There are very good ones, and I subsequently had one of that type. This first one tho was a new age fruit-cake.
One of his therapies was to clear me of interference from electronic sources, particularly when he learned I work with computers all day. It seems part of my problem was that the pulsing of the monitor was screwing with my back. So he had me walk up to a monitor, put my hand on it, and then did some "Heal!" kind of thing (no palm to the forehead, thank ghu!).
This must have been around 1998 or so, but the computer system he was using in his office was old even for the time. DOS, 12", 60hz. Like a clueless jackass, I then tried to explain to him about refresh rates, and his ancient system and monitor vs our much newer ones where I work.
He confidently assured me I was cured of intereference from all monitors everywhere.
I never went back there again.