[v5v3]

"Also, it used to be important when screens were nowhere near as wide but now there’s no longer any reason to use it the way it is."

Mobile users?

[aidenn0]

There is more than enough room for 4 menus across the top of a typical mobile device. If you expect the user to need to access it regularly, you could even put it across the bottom. This is why the homescreen on most phones has 4 items across the bottom; not a single hamburger menu with "Phone, Messages, Web, ..."