My theory... You either go with the black Friday or the absolutely cheapest model in your desired size you can find or go all in with an OLED.
It really doesn't seem to make sense to go in the middle. With a middle models... You are getting small incremental improvements but still making huge compromises while paying a LOT of money (2x-5x or $500-1500) more than the $300 bottom model.
We find our spot of value to performance on that line I guess. That line is not linear though. The quality goes up slowly as prices climbs higher until you hit OLED where performance goes way up for not much more money. Opposite of the way most things are priced.
That being said, I bought a middle of the road. Clearance, one offs, and end of year deals can throw a wrench in my theory

Ignore the juveniles. specs are here https://www.samsung.com/us/televi...xza/#specs

The fact is that over 90% of people are perfectly happy with TV's that get "yellow" numbers on rtings.com. Even a red number or two is acceptable. For every 100 TV's I sell, I sell 3 or 4 QLED's and zero OLED's. A few people talk a big game, but no one has ever plunked down the cash. I sell twice as many TCL Hisense & Vizios as I do Sony, Samsung & LG. I've talked to a couple of kids loading TV's into cars at Best Buy, their numbers were less dramatic, but vaguely similar. Its just so easy to get stuck down a rabbit hole looking at mfr. specs and rtings numbers. I know I do it myself sometimes. But essentially it's mostly excruciating minutiae.

That's like saying "there's no reason to get a car that's not a Ferrari or Bentley unless you're only looking for a way to get around town and don't care about how you look". That makes sense right?? Not every consumer has an extra $4-5K for an 85" TV and will be completely satisfied with this model because it is within their budget.

Yup already covered it. See the comments about the panel types.

What about money? Is money not a valid reason in your book? If so, can you lend me the extra $2500 to get an 83" OLED? I'll take itunes gift cards in lieu of cash. I won't complain about it actually being a couple inches smaller.

This guy must sell TVs out of a big white van. Can't take anything he says seriously after claiming he has NEVER sold an OLED (c'mon, never?) and to top it off sells twice as many blah blah blah as blah blah Samsung's. Samsung sells the most TVs, by far. All those 90% of people he claims don't care about picture quality? Samsung buyers, all of them lol. They buy on brand name and price. And they are buying this tv. It's huge, cheap, has ok PQ, and most importantly says Samsung on it...

Saw them, but IPS vs VA isn't always everything. My Q85 Samsung is IPS but it blows away almost anything I've ever seen. Real world comparison might help some folks trying to make a decision between the two, hence my comment.