The statement "I'd rather buy something that doesn't offend my eyes." is hyperbole at its finest. Yes, the Silver aluminum Cinema Displays were works of art, I still have a 20" model hanging out somewhere around my office. But to suggest that you are offended by a rather bland and innocuous looking computer display's industrial design just cheapens the word's meaning. I am reasonably sure your eyes will be just fine if you concentrate more on the content being shown on the 5K display since that is your job after all, right? We can play design critique all day, but LG isn't paying your salary.
Once upon a time, Apple was the boundary pusher with regards to flat panel displays when others were still hawking a 1280x1024 panel as "Hi-Res" and trying to make us ignore the specs that said it had a VGA connector on it. Those days are over and we're well past the point of Apple making a meaningful impact at the consumer level with a 4K and 5K display that would cost easily twice what consumers want to pay now. I have a Dell P2415Q, a Dell U2414H (my wife's computer) and a BenQ SW271. All black plastic ugly boxes, but gorgeous displays for the cost and times they were purchased in and economical compared to the LG UltraFine 4K and 5K, much less some nuveau Aluminum art piece from Apple. They wisely chose the top end for Pros and are giving them something with serious ID, love it or hate it, that takes technology from much costlier displays and puts it in more professional hands, but make no mistake the tech in that display is the real superstar, not Jony Ive's design.
Said simply, I doubt the Russo Brothers, Quentin Tarantino or Martin Scorsese are concerned with the design of a Sony BVM-HX310 when they are watching dailies of the movie they are currently shooting, but are way more concerned with the color, the sharpness and the look of the footage they shot that just cost their producer a few million dollars to film.
