Here's something I can agree with 100%. Nice post. Even though I wish I still had my CRT, I would never have just a CRT anymore, and I well realize that most people don't care about the areas where CRTs are superior. I do, but I realize I'm part of a small minority.
Just back to the CRT flickering, if the level of light coming from a CRT did not fluctuate you would not be able to photo complete black frames simply by reducing the exposure of a photo. Cameras do not lie, in between frames a CRT picture drops all the way back to a complete black frame (this black includes the nearly completely irrelevant reflected ambient light btw). The same thing happens when you film a CRT with a video camera. Samsung (IIRC) are using this fact to attempt to make their LCDs appear smoother by inserting black frames every other frame (on a side note the people who have seen it say it works btw).