I've been using the CRG9 for 3 years without issue. I use fancyzones to create 3 "window" areas - a thin chat window, the main middle window, and a side research/reference/video window.
When I'm not working it makes for amazing ultrawide gaming. A video card to push the resolution is actually possible without a new mortgage. I don't understand the whole too wide thing tbh.
Only thing I wish is that it had better HDR with more zones, but it was a pretty early example of this kind of thing I think so can't have everything.
Maybe if I find an LG c2/c3 43" OLED for a good price I'll get that instead, but for now this thing is awesome enough.
I just found I spent more time battling the aspect ratio than anything else. It isn't that it was too wide (though it was, for me) ... it's that it wasn't tall enough (pixel wise) for the width. This meant I never quite had enough height for ANY comfortable IDE/document/web usage.
Being able to have 4 or 5 non-ideal height windows side-by-side was just 4 or 5 times as annoying for me.
The LG solves all the issues I had with the Samsung. I get the same width in pixels, in a smaller dimension (so reduced head movement) and I get more pixel height.
For those benefits, as I am not a gamer, I happily sold the CRG9 and accepted lower (but still fine on the eyes) refresh rates.
Couldn't be happer. I used the CRG9 for a few years, it had to go.
Now I have the LG 40WP95C-W at 40" and 5120x2160 and it is perfect. Especially with window tiling that does thirds well.