Uh… There has been a massive surge of 5k and 6k monitors at different price points during the past two years. If not ”in the middle” between crappy office monitors and (old) XDR displays then what are they? The monitor in this thread costs about the same as the old XDR stand… Now we are also seeing monitors that are pushing up refresh rates on higher resolutions.
Sure, the perfect specs on a monitor at a great price might not exist, but what you can get for 1000-1500 is more then ever (and more options depending on what you prefer).