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I don't know if they'll ever be perfect, as it's just a serious materials science issue to make something fold that should never show a seam, but I'd be willing to tolerate a little crease if they didn't charge an arm and a leg and made them "reliable but eventually with a small crease." Seems we are not there yet, but I thank the early adopters for their service.
I don't know man. I do remember what I thought of the early touchscreens. They got scratched up by a wet fart, they were inaccurate, they were generally not great to use. But the potential was there, and everyone could see it.
Then people much smarter than you or I made better kinds of glass, more accurate capacitive sensors, etc. They can even hide fingerprint readers behind them now, which would have been inconceivable some time ago. I do believe the crease thing can be solved with enough R&D. And I do believe it will be, because unlike the stupid edge screen stuff Samsung put on their phone ca. Galaxy S7 or thereabouts, foldable screens have a clear potential to be way more than just a dumb gimmick that nobody really cares about.