I feel guilt about how much I like standard mode on my C3

I have never had anything but a budget tv until four days ago. I chose the LG C3 OLED kind of on a whim without knowing anything about TVs because all I knew was that I wanted a "good" tv and the picture looked good in Best Buy. I had no idea.

It's been like seeing a new dimension, or witnessing an entirely new color. I don't just mean the 4k resolution and the nice darks, because those are great in filmmaker and cinema modes but they still look like just (really good) TV. It's the standard mode, with all of the AI processing I guess, that has left me feeling like there's been a profound shift in my understanding of the world, or at least media.

In Standard mode, everything takes on a surreal level of three dimensionality. Murky shadows are cleared up and filled in with rich detail. Textures become palpable. It looks like you are sitting in a room with the actors and watching them move around in this suddenly real space. It's like what I imagined 3D tv would be, without the eye strain and headache.

It is utterly mesmerizing. I watched Coraline (not even in 4k) with Standard mode and it was like the stop animation dolls were right in front of me. I watched the latest (again, not 4k) What We Do in The Shadows and for the first time, after 4 previous seasons, I could see that the vampires were pallid and how exquisitely costumed they were and the insane level of detail in the staging.

When I turn Standard off the screen flattens and it's like, okay, yes, this is a television show. Back to Standard mode: bam, a return to some kind of new half reality, half-theatre experience.

Now I'm conflicted. Standard is addicting but sometimes I can't even pay attention to the plot because I'm focusing so much on the realness of the experience. I feel obligated to experience a show the way the filmmakers intended, because I respect their vision and the work that went into the color grading and color palette and all of that, and Standard mode definitely changes that stuff. At the same time, if I watch filmmaker or cinema then I am less immersed and that feels like a loss.

I just wanted a good tv, not an existential crisis over the way I watch shows. I don't know why I am on a branded TV subreddit talking about this but I had no idea this tech existed and neither does anyone else I know and I figured people here might understand.