It's because of the weight of our experience. Also you can never be too thin or too rich. Older devs can afford the sleeker laptops. And we don't need to do ha

It's because of the weight of our experience. Also you can never be too thin or too rich. Older devs can afford the sleeker laptops. And we don't need to do hard grunt work, so having a lightweight 'supervisor-top' is a mark of that. Look at briefcase dimensions, the C-suite always have the smallest/thinnest, if any at all. Seems like you were born yesterday.