The "perceived benefits" of being able to see more things at once might really be an illusion if they're just a firehose of distractions.
Less so when the things in question are "an error log next to the bug I'm filing about it", or "program output and the program I'm iterating on" or "the total state of production while I'm deploying code" or "chat with team members while I'm reacting to an incident and don't have the mental bandwidth for extra context switching". A really powerful tiling WM with desktops that can be independently switched between a couple of monitors is pretty much a superpower in these situations.
TFA seems overconfident and mistaken in its assumptions.
This. I use a big widescreen monitor so that I can see the code I’m writing, the modules related to it, the running application, documentation, etc. all at once.
If I’m writing fiction, a small screen is all I need most of the time. But for a big programming project, it really helps to have all the relevant bits on the screen at once.
Less so when the things in question are "an error log next to the bug I'm filing about it", or "program output and the program I'm iterating on" or "the total state of production while I'm deploying code" or "chat with team members while I'm reacting to an incident and don't have the mental bandwidth for extra context switching". A really powerful tiling WM with desktops that can be independently switched between a couple of monitors is pretty much a superpower in these situations.
TFA seems overconfident and mistaken in its assumptions.