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I don't feel spoiled by the display. At least not when it comes to just reading. In that sense I was already spoiled by physical paper books, which I still much prefer to e-ink. The contrast is incredible, the reading experience superior; you can feel the book, smell it, interact with it (turning pages, etc). With paper books the progress is physical, I don't have to worry about breaking anything and it's just more pleasant in every conceivable way.
Reading on a monitor/phone has always been an act of pure desperation - something I've done when there's been no other choice. It's horrible, hurts my eyes. I cannot concentrate or enjoy myself that well and don't remember what I've read.
I have recently bought and started using the Hisense A5 Pro and Onyx Boox Nova 3 - and yes, for phone and tablet use I feel a bit 'spoiled', maybe. On the other hand it feels like this is what technology was supposed to be like all along. As if it's finally fulfilling its promise, and not very well at that (not enough contrast, bad refresh rate, etc).
The one area where all my e-ink devices do better than books is, of course, mobility. I can carry an entire library with me at all times; and I can at any given moment add another library's worth of books to it. The versatility is also great: my phone becomes a whole language learning platform - I can read and press a word to quickly check its meaning in a dictionary, I can add it to a SRS program and so on.
Still, all in all, I am incredibly grateful for e-ink. It's one of the few uses of technology I wholly approve of. I hope it will keep getting better - I want to have a colour e-ink laptop soon! My dream would be relatively high refresh colour e-ink monitors, tablets and phones, where the colour can be disabled and enabled only when needed. That would be the pinnacle of display technology!
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