When personal computers became just another consumer electronics gadget, they ceased being tools optimized for their prior primary use cases. It's no surprise

When personal computers became just another consumer electronics gadget, they ceased being tools optimized for their prior primary use cases. It's no surprise this has resulted in removal of things like status/activity lights. The same thing happened to automobiles when they went mainstream. Now you have to get an enthusiast/sports car just to get oil pressure and voltage gauges, and even then they're likely to be nerfed to non-linearity so they're always in the same place until so far outside of normal that it's too late to prevent any negative consequences. I'm looking at you, rental Turbo Passat coolant gauge that stayed perfectly still until overheating in Death Valley accompanied by an instantaneous jump from Normal to pinned in the red on the temperature gauge I was attentively monitoring. smh. Another example is the original MX-5's oil pressure gauge that was so active you could use it as a proxy for engine RPM, which is normal. The next generation "improved" this with one that stayed stationary in the upper range once the engine had any pressure at all, compressing all "normal" pressures to that needle position, effectively turning it into an oil pressure switch+light in analog needle form. I'm still waiting for a PC/Laptop manufacturer targeting specifically this market. Clicky keyboards, hardware connectivity switches, status/activity lights galore, i.e. a rebirth of the OG classic ThinkPads w/modern SoCs/displays/batteries. They'll be expensive, but so are Porsches, I can't be alone in wanting this...