I'd be up for an hour long rant about GUIs but you can't just handwave away the differences between Windows 95 and upwards. 95 was focused on a spatial metapho

I'd be up for an hour long rant about GUIs but you can't just handwave away the differences between Windows 95 and upwards. 95 was focused on a spatial metaphor like old school MacOS and 98 started the switch to a browser metaphor. "Why do we have lists of tiny icons to click on instead of hiding big ones until we need them" It's called putting the parts on the floor, it's why Lego is intuitive.