[alxlaz]

> Shift in screen size: It used to be that everyone runs Windows on a 800x600 screen. That changed, and then changed quickly. Many different resolutions and screen sizes. The drag and drop thing just doesn't work well for that. The web model, where you write "responsive CSS" and the browser handles the rest for you, works better.

This... really doesn't match my experience at all. I may be thinking of later UI development tools from the .NET era (I no longer recall if VB6 had proper support for linear layouts and the like, that was forever ago) but GUI builders with responsive controls were absolutely a thing, and they ran circles around any "responsive" CSS we have today, if only because they had instant feedback. I don't miss most aspects of programming from that age, but this is one that I do miss tremendously.

Edit: I certainly agree on the other points. I think this one was less of a technical limitation and more due to the humans in the loop; lots of people just didn't know better, information dissemination was far more limited (lots of us learned these things offline, from books and the like), and the platform didn't force you to do the right thing, either.