Getting kind of tiresome seeing people annoyed that the company behind the best plasmas have only focused on movies and PQ and not gaming. Move on, you like LG and really need 2.1, fine go for it. There will be 1% AAA titles that might run 4k@120hz native on ps5 and xbox x. 60hz is fine, it's fine for top tier PC setup and will be fine for consoles and even 30 been fine for most since ps4 and xbox released all those years ago. And yes they promised 60hz then also but we didn't get much.
I bought the hz2000 for a few things. I don't like LGs motion, out of the box performance, fw bugs like with raised blacks on pretty much all DV content and flickering chroma with VRR. I had a sony before, very happy with motion and colors but not with how they handled DV with software. And I prefer the tonemapping on panasonic that retains details without brightening the whole picture that LG love.
I chose panasonic because they have the best near black handling, highest nits, great tonemapping and better APL handling compared to other brands but that that is my view.. And with the 2000 you get less retention problems, better cooling and a great atmos system if you don't want to buy a good soundbar.
I chose 2000 over 1000 because of the higher nits, better remote, better design in my eyes and the metal slab for improved cooling and hopefully less prone to retention in the long years.
Premium tvs cost more like anything premium, audio, speakers, cars, apartments, GPUs and so on. It's up to you if it's worth it or not.
And seeing CX and Denon only this year using 40gbit hdmi is kind of proof the hardware hasn't been ready. And probably why sony, panasonic, philips and others have waited.