In 2024, with GNOME 45, Wayland, and 1.25 fractional scaling, regular DPI displays still look better than HiDPI displays. This is a photo of Discord on two laptops side by side.
The blurry one is the HiDPI display from Framework 13. The sharp one is a regular DPI display from Dell XPS 13. Both laptops.
The difference is even more stark in person.
Even the screenshots from the Framework are blurrier than the screen shots from the Dell.
For apps on supported compositors (not Discord, it’s even experimental in Chromium), fractional-scale-v1 works quite nicely depending on the scale. Qt6 can have some minor artifacts at times when using some custom scales like 115%