abolute sharpness is overated.

I am starting to fall in love with old leica glass specfically mandler era glass. My mentor prefers even older leitz glass.
Basically pre asph lens allow a continuity of vision across planes. This is prefered since i make pictures with multiple subjects often counter-balancing each other. Some might describe it as painterly.

Modern lens have the of kind of sharpness that calls attention to itself. When accurately focused it can create out of world kind of imagery. But if inaccurately done it screams error.

These problem are often at large aperture say 2.8 and wider.

Another thing is that when viewing on LCD it seems that sharpness is magnified. When on matte print it is less the case.