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Whether using a telescope and eyepiece or a CCD, neither is a 'true rendition. Both are using technology to enhance our visual perception in ways our eyes cannot achieve on their own.
To me the best innovation ever is video astronomy. It combines the immediacy of visual with some of the colour and detail of astrophotography.
Basically you have a specialist video camera in place of the eyepiece and you get full colour images with lots more detail than visual alone, but in real-time, wither on a screen attached to the scope, or from the warmth of the living room! The colours are also not 'made-up' by the person doing the processing if that is something that bugs you. And it works great with something cheap like a fast ED80. To me, this is closer to what the objects would look like if I could stand close enough to see them with my naked eye, and with the colours to match.
There is always room for both visual and CCD imaging, but with light pollution and physical constraints on scope-size I find I am doing neither more often, and using video astronomy instead, and keeping visual for the Moon and Solar obs.
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