This wouldn't suprise me at all. The first time I scanned film and viewed at 100%, my first thought was: This scanner is CRAP. The inkjet prints delighted me with their sharpness compared to the screen.
Rob Studdert wrote, in part:
When the Canon 1DS came out, lenses that seemed perfectly fine for 35mm all of a sudden sucked.
Is it possibly more a case of the fact that film shooters who hadn't owned a decent film scanner finally got to zoom into their images on a big screen?