[jandrese]

Everything that supported graphics looked better than CGA. Even monochrome Hercules graphics.

Although to be fair CGA wasn't intended to be used on monitors. It was intended to be used on smeary composite video sources where you could expand the palette using artifact colors. Even then the graphics were terrible, but you could at least get a green.

[aidenn0]

But by '87 EGA cards existed; it's just they never bothered to port it to EGA.