Perhaps you could have made it more reliable with huskier replacement ICs.
I'd have only junked it if the CRT were bad. They did not make too many of those widescreen CRT sets, and given how great a picture they have they WILL become collectable(likely much sooner then most other sets made around that point too).
I wish I could find one for a good price! Only one ever I saw with the super-fine pitch CRT was about a year ago and the thrift wanted 125$
for it...I was broke, and if my folks weren't buying a house then and broke as well, I'd have begged them until they helped me get it.