I admit not having good, hard data. My most vivid related memory is comparing the back then new flat screen to the my CRTs and being disappointed with both delay and sharpness (CRTs exponential decay is way nicer imo). Obviously wouldn't expect those to have gotten worse, though.

Anyway, you mentioned phones: 16ms from touch to response on screen? That's hard for me to believe and I'd love to read up on that, if you got any sources. The ones I've found were not that great but don't paint such a good picture. [0] is an article claiming touch sensors scan only once per frame, aka 16ms at the time. [1] claims ~85ms to response on an iPhone 4, ~55ms on iPhone 5. How were you able to easily beat those by such a margin?

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/9605/the-ios-9-review/9#Input...

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-5-touchscreen-2x-faster-tha...

There are other parts of the program beyond touches, such as scroll performance and what you do in reaction to touch events. Also the user doesn't move their finger within 85ms anyway if you think about it. That is moving to tap the phone, smushing their finger into the phone and then moving their finger away from the phone to see the result.

Nowadays you have 120hz scrolling on the ipad and the very fast responsiveness of things like the apple pencil, which shows you that responsive hardware and software is definitely possible.