How did none of the Apple devs notice this? 4k 32" inch is the industry standard for HiDPI monitors.
https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays/
- 24" you need 4k
- 27" you need 5K.
- 32" you need 6k.
Meanwhile, Apple had this but dropped it in 2018, allegedly under the assumption of "hiDPI everywhere" Retina or Retina-like displays. Which would be great...except "everywhere" turned out to be "very specific monitors support specific resolutions".
When you set it to "more space" it becomes noticeably slower, but not blurry.
Apple basically settles into 220 dpi physical displays (250 moc MacBook Pro), rendering UI at a 2x scale as a default, except for MacBook Airs.
They’re likely all on Studio Displays.
Fractional scaling (and lately, even 1x scaling “normal”) displays really are not much of a consideration for them, even if they’re popular. 2x+ integer scaling HiDPI is the main target.
5K at 27 inch or 6K at 32 inch would though, specially on a Mac.
But to be fair, until last year there were no retina monitors in the market except the Apple ones. In 2025, the tides turned, there are now way more options both for 5k and 6k retina displays.
The article could just be AI slop since it just contains hyper in depth debugging without articulating what the problem is.