I agree. Displays in general suck. The display on the RMBP is a step in the right direction, but there's still a lot of work to be done. Anyone who settles for "good enough" may as well live life like it's the 16th century. It was "good enough" then too.

My vision for the future? Specifications that fully exceed the human capacity for discernibility.

2880x1800? Nope, I can still see aliasing (particularly in Terminal when I'm coding).

IPS? Nope. Move your head slightly up and down and -- while the chromaticity stays (roughly) the same -- the luminance does not.

Black levels? I can still distinguish a black screen from the bezel, so it needs some work too.

Color depth? See the provided banding examples. Not to mention that the three primaries in most LCD panels form a very small triangle in the chromaticity diagram.

Refresh rates also stink. It's 2012 -- motion should be so fluid it looks real by now.

Anyway, there's a lot of potential for improvement but I'm afraid if you're not OCD (like me) or a color scientist, most people just don't care too much.