I just miss responsive desktop applications. I see USD10000+ tools running in the browser and I just wish we went back to how solid applications were built in 1990s or 2000s.
I feel like that the resulting lower attention span is a bigger issue. Even if my phone is away, I constantly find myself switching tabs - moving from work related reading to HackerNews or reddit. I'll tell myself I'll take a 20 minute break but end up extending that by reading articles that really don't improve my life in any meaningful way. I would be far happier if I could just work and then relax.
Couldn't agree more. It used to be much better. I remember on Mac OS 8, the window manager made intuitive sense and got out of the way in most cases.
I don't know when it deteriorated on Mac OS X, but I've recently started to use Rectangle a lot (https://rectangleapp.com/). This has been really useful.