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The old maximise system was simply designed to make the window as large as it needed to be to optimally fit content.

It wasn't designed to 'make this window fit the screen'. It was designed to 'make this window fit this A4 document.

Thanks, this is the first answer to this question that sort of makes sense from a Windows user point of view. I mean I still prefer the "Windows way", but this is at least viable reasoning for the "Mac way".

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