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Yup, engineers being paid six figures in their large corporate offices, controlling humanity's access to computers... hardcoded screen space sizes.
Of course this answer is also part bs because they don't want to let users move their taskbar because they should have to pay for that privilege.
Aren't all apps just borrowing from web frontend code now so it can be responsive like a website? Making this doubly bullshit
MS has been using react native for the UI components but it turns out that MS reaped what they sow as every engineer they bring on has to learn and study Microsoft's legacy codebase from scratch and a lot of those Windows 7 era components are still the load-bearing peg to everything.