Replacing LCDOUT with direct statements?

[HenrikOlsson]

I've actually used a Nextion displays for a project or two because that's what the customer wanted and I must say find a couple of your comments a bit strange. In fact it makes me wonder if YOU have actually tried one....

1. High cost <-OK, relative to a 1602 or 128x64 graphics display, sure. But compared to a similar product from say 4D Systems, no.
2. Bad quality, low contrast, bad viewing angle and not sunlight readable display. <- Only used in indoors so can't comment on that
3. Need for SD card <- Certainly not. None of the projects I've done with them have use an SD card.
4. Long boot time <- What? Please define long. In my experience they start like "instantly".
5. Complicated, badly written and not user oriented IDE <- Sure, it's a bot rough but it does get the job done and it allows you test out commands etc virtually.

EDIT, I just dug one of mine out and powered it up.
Yes, it starts "instantly" (less than 1s). No, there's no SD-card in it and it still works.
Black text on white background is no problem reading at almost ANY angle but black text on gray buttons does wash out when viewed from the 6 o'clock position.