AntcuFaalb said:

My father watches VHS over composite stretched to 16:9 on a contrast-boosted over-sharpened LCD TV with a terrible black level and he thinks it looks fine.

I'll see you that and raise you a "and the VHS tape is recorded from an OTA broadcast", with now-vintage commercials and everything. In EP mode, so he can fit three movies on one tape.

Agreed. Most of the world does not care about quality, and furthermore, they seem to aggressively prefer the worst quality just to annoy us.