[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

It isn't petty, it is indicative of an incompetent development team. We have been able to move the taskbar since Windows 95, but apparently whoever Microsoft hires to work on Windows UI these days can't figure it out. Lord knows what else those yahoos have fucked up.

[rightbyte]

Probably some "yagni" Scrum master/PO aggressivly cutting corners in the planning phase to save story points, but on the end adding work for removing the feuture from the old code.

[Foobar8568]

I would bet more on a standard a 49" 5120x1440 monitor and they didn't even realize the need of that basic productive feature.