I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.

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    It is hard to read text with very long lines. Have you tried it? You need multiple text columns if you want to use more horizontal space (newspapers and large books have been doing this for centuries for this reason).

    Creating columns was quite tricky before the widespread browser support for the relevant css. There was at least a decade with widescreen monitors but without proper (and responsive) column support in browsers.

    That being said: Pages that are newer than let’s say 2020 don’t have this excuse.

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      Do websites display more than text?

      Do some sites contain really wide text that may need to be viewed on one line, like code?

      Of course I’ve tried it. I’ve been on the internet longer than that design choice.

      When my browser window is in an inconvenient shape or location, do you know what I do? I resize and move my browser window just like any other window.

      There was a time in the past when some web designers would move your window to the middle of the page. That location makes it easy to read content. Does that mean users want the designers making that choice for them? No. And webpages don’t do that anymore.

      Edit: just look at this disaster https://imgur.com/BfUcEVV 976 pixel margin in the left and the image is left aligned inside a centered 975 pixel div even though it is 2048 pixels wide and has plenty of space to be center aligned.