It's worth revisiting some of your favourites in an emulator - these days PSX emulators can do perspective correct texturing to fix the jiggling and warping, which combined with internal upscaling makes games which were badly affected by those shimmering textures feel much more "solid".

Here's the first track in Ridge Racer Type 4, for example, which looks so much nicer without the track and wall textures wobbling about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDJpmP9jfeA&t=204s

Edit: the original version, for comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk30NbG2Hx8&t=102