For me it's not pixels in total, but pixels per inch. Why? Because like on a larger desk I can put more stuff, on a larger screen I can do the same.
And yes, 96 or maybe even 72 dpi is pretty much enough.
And yes, I love large screens: a 43-inch 4k monitor displays lets me see a few pages of docs, three+ code files at the same time, and have a place for a chat with a colleague or friend at the same time.
Would I buy a smaller 4k monitor? Nah, no way.
Would I play games/watch movies in 4k? Nah, I most of the time play in a window, or on a second 19 inch 5:4 monitor because the screen is too large.
And yes, I'm very sad because of lack of laptop options with reasonable screen resolution, yet high end hardware.
And yes, for a small screen I pick lower resolution whenever I can.
For DOS, IMO, it's overkill. DOSBox-X does a very good job even for late and heavy dos games and is far more performant. A big advantage of DOSBox is not needing to setup a real OS inside the emulator - things just work.
For Windows things are the opposite, however. 86Box's better emulation of real hardware makes it far easier to setup the drivers and in general make the OS work well (on dosbox there are quite some quirks last time I checked, essentially requiring you to follow a specific guide, tweak some settings etc; on 86box it's just good old "install the os, put on the drivers and you're good to go"). Also, I notice that 86Box vms tend to be considerably faster than real hardware of the same level (likely will not be important for most games).
A sinking ship is becoming a sunken ship, I guess. With this rate of changes and "AI" in charge, I would be surprised if Windows will not finally turn into an unusable mess of bugs, memory leaks (no, Rust does not prevent them) and ruining the compatibility with all of the apps in process (the highlight of Windows, keeping people to still use it despite all MS effort to ruin the OS)
Are there any reasonable on screen keyboards for wayland already? Something on par with onboard i.e. all keys available.
Without that wayland is no go for at least half of my active linux devices.
And I'm not speaking about cost of implementing a technology to actively make the product worse.