Yep, TheOtherOne. But bragging rights aside, there's real practical and ergonomic considerations. 120Hz is currently commoditizing at the moment as a freebie feature.
All LG OLEDs has 120Hz available, most new Samsung TVs have 120Hz, XBox/PlayStation support 120Hz, Samsung Galaxy phones 120Hz, and the next Apple iPhone is predicted to have 120Hz.
Even the cheap $500 TCL TVs are now getting 120Hz at the moment.
Rumor is that DELL/HP will add 120Hz to their office monitors by the end of the decade, too.
I even expect 240Hz to be commoditized eventually (in a decade-ish). It'll be just like discussing 4K or 8K in year 1990s -- worthless premium features but tomorrow's commoditized features.
CRT did not need high Hz due to their natural flicker (which reduced blur), but combining "blur-free" + "flicker-free" simultaneously requires higher Hz, from a science & laws of physics perspective.
Blurless concurrently with flickerless requires extreme frame rates and extreme Hz to mimic analog real-life motion -- for people who hate flicker-based motion blur reduction but also simultaneously hate display motion blur. We can't do analog motion, so ultrahigh frame rate at ultra high Hz is the way to go.
Also, not everyone sees the same way. Some are picky with color, others are not. Yet more are picky about tearing, others are not. Some are color blind too. Or motion-insensitive (Akinetopsia). Or need eyeglasses.
On average, we probably really didn't need 4K for grandmas who couldn't tell apart VHS versus DVD, but 4K still replaced 1080p at the stores anyway. All the Average Joes that left their HDTV box in standard-definition mode, tells the whole story.
Regardless, High-Hz commoditization is much more gradual, but still has tangible benefits for humankind.
Just like some of us have a flicker sensitivity, huge numbers have a motion blur sensitivity (gets motion sick playing games unless they turn on ULMB, or switch to a plasma/CRT display). So often we can't have cake and eat it too...
Increasingly, several review writers who's followed the Hz geometric upgrade curve, have begun to notice the ergonomic pattern. The ergonomic benefits are visible in things like smooth scrolling / panning of all kinds of applications. Who wants the flicker of strobing? Hz-based blur reduction is superior, since it's flickerfree.
The esports player can go with refresh rate incrementalism (e.g. 120 - 144 - 240 - 360) but everyday users need to jump bigger, such as 60-120-240-480, or even 60->240, or 144->480 to get their "wow" money's worth in everyday-use upgradefeel, assuming GPU can keep up with scrolling/panning at that framerate in most 2D apps.
Future frame rate amplification technologies will eventually provide cheap 1000fps, though it will take time (a good example is Oculus ASW 2.0 and NVIDIA DLSS 2.0), those give about a 2:1 amplification ratio. Over the course of this decade (and next), upcoming new framerate-acceleration tech coming are able to provide eventual 4:1 then 5:1 then even 10:1 ratios, that are necessary for flickerless motion blur reduction on ultra-Hz displays.
In private tests, everyone (who was not motion-insensitive) at all ages could tell a 3x difference between Hz (120Hz-120fps versus 360Hz-360fps browser scrolling), despite the LCD GtG bottlenecking it to approximately only 2x-2.5x difference.
The less motion sensitive may require 3x+ upgrades (e.g. 60Hz vs 200Hz, or 120Hz versus 360Hz) to really get the wow-effect, but the general rule of thumb is 2x upgrade, assuming LCD GtG is fast (e.g. TN or those new "1ms IPS" panels of 2020+)
More non-esports writers need to give this coverage, as Hz-based blur reduction for everyday use (scrolling, panning) is a highly underrated ergonomic benefit not widely advertised.
Especially the lack of media/writer knowledge about the geometric curve required for everyday humans to see the diminishing curve of returns. But several are starting to notice once they get more familiar with a variety of refresh rates in everyday non-gaming use;
Mainstreamable refresh rates will proceed for a long time this century, as tech progress and economics permits. The refresh rate race is a slower trickle-down than the resolution race.
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