At least in Brazil, where I lived, CGA monitors were much cheaper because they had high commonality with B&W TVs, CCTV monitors, and the monitors that have been used with 8-bit computers. Color RGBi monitors were not as common because they required better CRTs than most TVs that size and decent color monitors only started appearing when it became easier to import them and their parts.
I'm not really fond on the MDA/EGA/VGA default fonts either unless we are talking about the ones that came with the Cordata or Toshiba portables ;-)
I'm not really fond on the MDA/EGA/VGA default fonts either unless we are talking about the ones that came with the Cordata or Toshiba portables ;-)