It’s amazing how much more useful hardware could be if software were properly designed and flexible. I don’t know why screens still care about optimizing video

It’s amazing how much more useful hardware could be if software were properly designed and flexible. I don’t know why screens still care about optimizing video...I can’t remember the last time I watched something full screen when there’s picture-in-picture. As with other software, I want to do multiple things and not necessarily just sit and watch something. For decades software has had a weird laziness when it comes to making things simply resizable. Ever seen a program pop up a list of 1000 choices that only shows about 4 of them, truncating half the names, with a useless miniature scrollbar and no ability to resize, on a gigantic screen? The day I got the iPad 1, it was the coolest thing ever. It took just weeks for that to be gradually ruined by ridiculous decisions made in software (web sites that could no longer be pinch-zoomed trying to “help” me with a “mobile-optimized” interface, apps lazily zooming up from phone sizes and making terrible use of space, etc.). To this day I would never opt into a “pro” version of that experience; I simply can’t stand software that constantly wants to tell me how much space I have been rationed for each thing.