How important is an LCD screen on your streamer?

It depends on the use case.

I have a screen (Hifi Rose) in one of my systems that I use in a near field situation. It is really handy to have it right there to navigate things.

My main rig for a while used the Rockna Wavelight Server which is headless. I never missed having a display.

Now I swapped that out for a Rockna Wavedream Reference which is the integrated streaming DAC. It does have a display, but mostly for the DAC stuff. 

Very.

I have the Eversolo Dmp-A6 with the upgraded LPS.

I only use the eversolo as a streamer transport and 4TB music server to rip my CDs

i use an external R2R denafrips pontus II 12th-1 and DDC denafrips iris 12th

source=Apple Music lossless

my video: 

https://youtu.be/WL7XCgal_KM?si=UUwikkw0IoqhFL2Q

I for one enjoy my screen. Gives a sense of "it's working and showing me what it's doing'". I like my components lit up.

Having a display on the streamer itself was not important to me, so I ordered an Innuos Stream 1 with the Phoenix USB digital module, 2 TB SSD storage, and the LPS1 linear power supply.   I picked it up from my dealer yesterday after ordering it in the week after they were announced.  The only glitch in set up with that I did not realize that the gray area on the right of the Stream 1 front panel is actually an On/Off switch, but a quick call to my dealer resolved that issue and I was up and running with Tidall, which I have been listening to via my 2024 iPad Pro.  Well!  The difference is simply astounding.

 I had had great imaging using the iPad, significantly better than my CD player used as a transport through my Gungnir 2 DAC when working with High files.  Switching to the Stream 1 resulted in improvements to the timbre of the instruments, the sounds of the strings vibrating on the stringed instruments, the clarity of the French Horns (which I played in a concert band in high school after playing trumpet since the 3rd grade)--all are greatly enhanced.  I turned off the living room lights and we sat in the almost darkened room and listened to various pieces by Fleetwood Mac, The Moody Blues, Beethoven's 6th Symphony by the Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm (we heard him conduct this in Berlin in 1976), Dvorak's New World Symphony, Max Bruch's Scottish Symphony, and the Trinity Choir of Cambridge University singing "Only in Sleep," and all were at least a couple of levels higher in sound quality than previously experienced. As far as screen on the streamer goes, I am far enough away from the unit that I would need binoculars to read anything, and having all the necessary information on my iPad is quite sufficient.  I wanted excellent sound quality, and that is what I have gotten with the Stream 1 with the LPS1 and the Phoenix USB digital board.  Many thanks to Aaron at Now Listen Here in Harrisburg, PA--and also in Falls Church, VA.

No display here. Use an Aurender with critical mode. I don’t like any lights or vu meters while I’m  relaxed and listening. The only exception is when I using my Mac. I love the look of the blue meters