I miss the clarity and aesthetics of VFDs, but I don't miss actual VFDs.
My KitchenAid oven and microwave both have VFD displays. They have degraded to the point of being almost unusable in just eight years.
I have an AVR and both it and its button is a pleasure to use. By comparison, the Apple TV is non existent physically and the remote is beautiful to look at and awful to use.