Actually, Super AMOLED is fine if you actually calibrate it. My Galaxy Nexus has pretty white whites as you can see on this image.The screen is actually pure garbage.
Have you ever bothered trying to take your screen and compare it to an iPhone 4S or HTC One X?
That's right, your screen can't display white and is half as bright. It's also tinted.
Thank god the new Lumias have dropped the trash that is Super AMOLED.
Luckily, my Android phone is open enough to allow me to tweak the custom settings and set the gamma, color, contrast, and CAB values to finetune the picture to my liking.
So yeah, it's not garbage. It just needs to be calibrated, like any TV you buy from the store. Not a big issue at all, and the fine-grained control will be of benefit to people who want accuracy.