> the desktop appearance zeitgeist has skewed so flat and dull that the extra pixels make no material difference
Yeah, this is definitely one of the saddest things about modern UI fashion. We have the highest-resolution, highest-DPI, cleanest-looking extra-bright, extra-deep-black HDR OLED screens, and... we've got flatter UI than ever, UI that would've looked dull even on a 90s CRT.
Yes, but we have layers over layeers of abstraction, tiny scrollbars (who needs scrollbars when you could scroll with the mouse wheel, if it worked - Microsoft is still not able to get mouse scrolling right) and rounded windows.
Yeah, this is definitely one of the saddest things about modern UI fashion. We have the highest-resolution, highest-DPI, cleanest-looking extra-bright, extra-deep-black HDR OLED screens, and... we've got flatter UI than ever, UI that would've looked dull even on a 90s CRT.