Very true. A project I'm working on involves some scrolling and animation on older hardware at 60Hz. Looks absolutely smooth on the CRT, but when emulated on a modern display there's always some kind of trailing/blurring.
Some older Zowie gaming monitors let you strobe the backlight at 60Hz to work with older software, as well as some modern TVs. It's quite fiddly to setup, but it can be worth it if you enjoy your old 60Hz locked games looking smooth.