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What would it be like if our monitors had ambient light sensors so that they could calibrate their color balance to the surrounding room? The human eye tends to "calibrate" itself based on the average of the scene it's observing, so if you really wanted images to look the same on every display you would have to take that into account.

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Isn't that what Apple's "True Tone" is about? (I just know of that one, but probably there's something similar on Android devices)

Professional productions can afford to simply work in dark rooms.

They have to calibrate for ambient light still. At least, that's true for radiology.

I'm a dark room lit only by other people's monitors, with each potentially having different scenes onscreen from moment to moment and thus ambient light varying all the time, that's a difficult/impossible thing to calibrate for manually and if automatically recalibrated by a monitor with ambient light sensors could potentially cause a vicious circle of autorecalibrations around the room

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