Mini LED gaming monitors are a bad idea in theory and in practice they're even worse

pcgamer.com:

This is going to be disappointing, but there's no getting round it. Mini LED is not the monitor tech you've been waiting for. Mini LED monitors are a bad idea in theory and, in practice, they're even worse.

In fact, what mini LED tech is best at is delivering fantastic specifications. 1,400 nits of brightness? Check. Contrast ratios measured in the millions? Yup. Ultra bright highs, inky black lows, epic full-screen brightness, zero risk of burn in, compatibility with ultra-high refresh rates? The works. 

Just don't mention the actual experience. Because it kind of sucks.

Okay, it does have one massive advantage that's real enough. Mini LED is available right now in gaming monitors you can actually buy, and in all shapes and sizes. That gives it a very clear edge over microLED, which remains entirely theoretical in the context of PC monitors, but is the promised holy land of next-gen panel design.

It's also more widely available in far more screen sizes than OLED tech, which has just begun to appear in PC monitors but is limited by virtue of being derived from TV OLED panels. So, you can't get, say, a 27-inch or 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor, they start at 42 inches and above. The smaller 27-inch OLED monitors are 'only' 1440p and yet cost $1,000 and up. Yuck.

Anyway, here's the problem: Mini LED technology is and will always be a kludge. It's a ramshackle semi-fix for a display technology with chronic inherent shortcomings. And it creates a whole new set of issues to replace the ones it fixes.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves, first let's cover off what mini LED actually is, where it sits in the display tech continuum and how it compares to other panel options.

The first thing to understand about mini LED is that