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If you take the same width of screen, e.g. 1920 pixels and make it taller, say, 1440 pixels, then you have the same horizontal space and all of those windows are taller with more content in them!

Isn't this just saying "if you make the screen bigger, you get more space"?

Indeed. Better argument: for a fixed diagonal, you get the most space by having a square screen.

Plus potentially a bigger keyboard with more rows. If Apple had done that with the new MBPs they could have had room for both full-size function keys and the Touchbar. C'est la vie.

Edit: after posting I realized something was missing. I meant had they done this and increased the diagonal to say, 17 or more inches.

The "nominally widescreen" 16:10 aspect ratio great for this. Anything shorter than that feels cramped to me.

I do the same thing all the time. It's one reason I tend to buy very large laptops.

Yes I love being able to have 3 screen splits on each monitor so that I don't have to move any windows when I need to look up some reference.