> My CRT contrast never bothered me, differently from the flat panels I owned, for example trying to play "superhot" and then "dark souls" same day required lots and lots of fiddling with flat panels, the settings that let me see anything at all on dark souls, made the screen flat white on superhot, fixing the settings for superhot made the screen flat black on dark souls...

Your software isn't doing color management correctly for your display then. It probably thinks the gamma/native contrast are much higher than they really are.

That said, most customer displays have shitty filtering code they never actually document. You should turn everything off except the backlight control and then never touch it again.