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Eye strain from OLED is just not something I have ever experienced with any OLED display I've used but I concede that this can be personal. Likewise have never seen any visible flickering.
Me neither. With 6k hours on my C9 and nearly 2k hours on my CX that I use as a monitor I have never experienced flickering or eye strain.
There's plenty of complaints about the 32" Samsung VA panels being too curvy. So having it adjustable does sound like a nice feature.
You haven't experienced the flickering on AW3423DW combined with ABL. That monitor is not comfortable to look at. The limitation is that LG hasn't made a smaller one yet. When it becomes smaller, the flickering has to be dealt with.
I can't speak for the AW but have not seen any issues with LG OLEDs no matter how close I've sat to them.
Every time people imagine a do-it-all monitor is just made for their regular uses for the office-like image in sRGB 80 nits. And they worry about the PPI hammers the image quality. It is the least concern considering what kind of image sRGB can bring at most. The actual do-it-all monitor is a competent HDR monitor that displays the most range. It will be the monitor you use all the time.
Honestly, this is more of a draw to me than a 4k 42", easier to push and my eyes are getting old ;P
Anything over 80 is perfectly fine in my opinion.
read up on "multi-model glass"
It's basically leftover area from the substrate. Let's say in a hypothetical "motherglass" substrate of area X, LG can cut three 55" 4K TV panels out of it, but then there's leftover material for something smaller so they can use that leftover area for two 45" ultrawide panels, thus improving how many panels they get from the same material which lets them sell more product. Makes no sense to not utilize it. Calling it scraps isn't exactly fair as they are not using worse parts here.
G9 , 1000R curved ultrawides
The G9 has a fixed curve which like a lens, has a focal point so you still have to sit a good distance away to be at the focal point. Neither a 42"/48" 16:9 OLED or a G9 are made for sitting at traditional desktop distances of 1.5' to 2'.
60PPD to 80PPD on 42" 4k = 29.0" to ~ 41" view distance
60PPD to 80PPD on 48" 4k = 33.5" to ~ 48" view distance
the focal point of a 1000R curvature screen is 39.37" view distance ~ 83PPD
Since it is curved, much like a lens it has a fixed focal point.
The curve is 1000R which means the focal point is 1000mm or 1 meter - which is a 39.37 inch viewing distance.
That is the distance it's fixed curvature makes as your viewpoint. Since it's not bendable you can't change this on the fly. If you sit at a different distance than this the curve isn't equidistant to you anymore.
39.37inch view distance on a 49" diagonal 5120x1440 ends up being around ~ 83 PPD which is a good PPD for a screen (pixels per degree, which is a measurement of the perceived pixel density of a resolution at any given distance).
Beneath 60 PPD
It's not that the screens are unusable at sub-60PPD or anything, it's just that the pixels / pixel grid will appear much more granular and aggressive. Interfaces, bars, menus, HUDs etc will all be larger by default on lower resolution screens as well (less desktop "real-estate"). Text will also look much poorer in general at low PPD and you won't be able to use as small of a font/text size or interface size without it looking bad (you can't get more desktop real-estate by just scaling things down more - there won't be enough pixels and sub-pixels to do it with a clean result). Nearer than around 60 PPD: AA in games and text subsampling on the desktop (where AA is not available) won't be able to compensate enough anymore.