I find it easier to maintain mental conceptions of three dimensional objects in my current working memory than I do a series of flat planes. I feel that we’re w

I find it easier to maintain mental conceptions of three dimensional objects in my current working memory than I do a series of flat planes. I feel that we’re wired that way. Take macOS as an example. The current space is shown as the largest view, which is silly because you’re already on it. The other spaces are shown as little thumbnails you can hardly see the contents of. You can either slide between spaces one at a time or click. In the cube, each face is the same size, you can see the backside of each window and you can view each window’s contents from an angle. It’s the same reason a book is easier to flip through than a Kindle. I really wish we could shake this strange obsession with minimalism and return to embracing skeuomorphic representations. Computers should adapt to us, not us to them. We have insane transistor counts and memory density at our disposal. Why shouldn’t we take advantage of that to provide even questionable benefits, as you put it, to our user experience?