I see it as a working device and I often look at screens a lot of time per day, week, mo the, year and decade.
I don't buy often new displays but spending 1k is in my opinion a no brainer for a good display.
My last display in broke due to an incident with a tent pole. So normally my displays don't really break
He also makes the baffling suggestion to use 2x scaling for 4k. That means that your 4K monitor has the same amount of screen real estate as a 1080p monitor, a reduction in surface area of 43% compared to a sane low-dpi monitor @ 1440p. While I agree that it would likely result in better looking scaling, I can't imagine how slightly better looking text/scaling can make up for the loss in surface area.
Personally I've regularly used 4k 27" and 1440p 27" monitors, and while the 4K monitor is clearer, it's not something that I'd fork over a few hundred dollars for.