Difference in OLED, LCD, LED, Plasma, etc.?

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Not the consumer's fault. Plasma suffered from physical limitations. The cells couldn't be made small enough for 4k without significant (read: extreme) investment. Plasma panels are heavy and power hungry. Plasma basically reached its peak a decade ago, and there wasn't really any scenario where it could compete with other tech long-term. Not on resolution, not on size, not on energy consumption, not on price.

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Should have said blame them for allowing it to die years before it should have. They are absolutely to blame in this case. They bought into the over hyped negatives of plasma panels and flocked to a shittier product. Plasma panels from the mid 2000's have better PQ that many 2017 LCD/LED. I am not being exaggerating, I have a Panny plasma I paid 5k for in 2004 that has better PQ with DirecTV HD channels than new mid tier LEDs panels.

I don't see it as a similar situation as CRT. By the time CRT's got phased out, there was tons of HD channels to actually get content to make sense. I get that plasma panels were far from being able to do 4k, but the amount of 4k content is still limited in comparison to 720/1080 HDTV.

IMO, consumers bought into the overstated negatives of plasma and positives of LCD and was reinforced when they would go into Best Buy or their box store of choice and the display TVs were showing special content on settings that only work in store to give a false impression of the PQ.

I do agree that eventually plasma would have died as 4k starts to become the norm, but that is still years away. I really would have loved to see what plasma panels could have done with 4k content with the proper R&D in it.