[mcphage]

> Yes surely any time they gimp a product it's because nobody needs the feature they removed.

You're tilting at windmills here—nobody claims that nobody needs it. Just that it's an engineering trade off, of who needs it.

> Every single person at my large software company uses at least 2 displays + laptop, that's the standard setup.

That's pretty cool. The standard for my medium software company is... not that.

> It's just objectively better for productivity to be able to look at multiple things at once without having to cram them into a single monitor.

I agree with you there. I'm pretty happy with 2 screens—and getting an extra wide monitor for my second screen was also a step up in a lot of ways.