Megan - "Not a FW guy, but never liked tapes. Always thought it took too much to interpret in comparison to a round dial and noting the o'clock position of the needle. Man/machine interface problem for Sully?"
Sully had 4,765 hrs in the AB. That's years of flying. I wasn't a fan of tape displays, especially for altimeters(!!), but after 4-5K+ hrs flying them I think the modern tape displays are better than round dial airspeed tapes.
I'd still might prefer round altimeters, needle straight up is also a thousand foot mark. Perhaps easier to not exceed your cleared altitude with an obvious readout (needle at 12 o'clock) vs the tape altimeter readouts.