Wasting you breath, most Freepers still fuss about the low water flush toilets that work better than anything in the past because they were forced to redesign the old ones and guess what they actually improved them. I regret that it took government intervention to make it happen but people and companies resist change even if it is an improvement which might explain why my main computer is 14 years old and yes I have modern ones too, just don't like them.
CFLs are/were crappy for multiple reasons. The quality of light was poor among other things.
Now that prices have become more attractive, LEDs are a reasonable, albeit unnecessary, alternative.
What was rarely acknowledged was the whole push to CFLs was because the 2 or 3 mfg of CFLs spent a lot of money lobbying for the legislation. They thought they were in the catbird seat $$$ then the massive drop in price for LEDs basically leapfrogged LEDs over CFLs. They thought they were going to make a crap ton of money for a long time with the CFL market mandated and cornered.
None of the government’s fooking business.