I used CRTs for years (naturally... I'm in my late 30s) and, without fail, they sucked. If they weren't long-persistence, they were flickery; if they were, they were smeary, even by the standards of ancient mono laptops. If they were flat-screened, focus was inconsistent. Large ones were expensive (and by "large" I mean "19 inch"), and you lost some screen area from the bezel.
If you found one that didn't have any of these problems, it was probably enormously expensive. But even your enormously expensive one wouldn't look quite pin-sharp at 1600x1200. (Unless it was truly enormously expensive, and was a 22+ inches diagonal.)
And whatever you did, they took up a huge amount of space, used a vast amount of electricity, and emitted a lot of radiation (though nobody ever seemed to be quite clear on whether this was actually bad for you).
And what nobody seems to remember is how rather unreliable they are. Failure rate for the LCDs I've owned: 0%. For the CRTs? 100%. None made it past six years.
If you like them for games, great. Enjoy your youthful ability to detect those extra 10ms of latency while you still have it, that's what I say! But for a terminal? You're nuts.