Not sure what is the practical and/or logical purpose of differentiating "hiding" applications and "minimizing" windows. They do one and the same, with the exce

Not sure what is the practical and/or logical purpose of differentiating "hiding" applications and "minimizing" windows. They do one and the same, with the exception that "hiding" hides the entire app (with exception of Photoshop), and minimizing moves a window to the dock. IMO, two different behaviors for essentially the same thing - I can't think of a strong enough use case where you would want to hide instead of minimize (or minimize vs hide). Back on topic, here's another thought (which I alluded to in my original post, but could not articulate well): could it be that their study included shortcuts that were too complicated? Could their results be skewed because in some instances it was easier to grab the mouse than to perform finger-gymnastics or to even remember the complex key combinations? I think the results of their study were glaringly obvious: the answer isn't "Move everything to the mouse" but "Improve keyboard shortcuts"