This monitor looks interesting but along with the enhancements for greater brightness does seem to have quite a few shortcomings not present on the LG. Hopefully firmware fixes it, but personally the black crush would be a dealbreaker for me. I'm also surprised about the lack of HDMI 2.1, though that would only be a major problem if using a console. It's perplexing they'd include HGiG for consoles, though, and not have HDMI 2.1, whereas the inverse is true of the LG.