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Maybe a TV across the room, but for monitors, or content that is close enough, it sure does make a difference! I've even started to find 1080p a bit "blurry" feeling, like 720p before it when 1080p came out. Especially when it's YouTube's shitty bitrate vs a game rendering in 4k. Night and day.
For me it's mostly for text and content with fine lines where the difference is the most obvious. I use a 1440p monitor at work and a 4k one at home. Text is noticeably sharper and easier to read on my 4k monitor and remains readable at smaller font sizes.
I went to 4K monitors many years ago and agree there is a big difference, that said there are a lot of issues with HiDPI monitors on desktop OSs, plus it requires a strong GPU for gaming. Since then I've gone to 1440p and think it is an ideal middle ground for performance while looking almost just as sharp.
It really depends. I managed to play Cyberpunk 2077 at 4k on my old 1080ti with 30-50fps, and thanks to having a nice monitor and knowing how to tune graphics settings, my roomie that had a 2080 gtx was complaining that mine looked better. lol
Anything that's not crazy levels of fidelity can be tuned to work totally fine at 4k on modern graphics cards. Every generation (that has more than 8gb of gRAM, anyways...) since the 1080 has been more than capable of 4k gaming with some settings tweaks.