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My personal theory is that fewer and fewer people spend time on actual general computing devices. When confined to straitjackets like phones and tablets, people resort to the one functionality that is easy to reach for, namely screenshots. I'm guessing the habit spreads?

Just look at the amount of garbage "here's my code as a screenshot, what's wrong?" questions Stack Overflow has to remove each and every single day.

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I remember reading a few years ago from a teacher that was teaching a class that involved using the school computers, and a good amount of the kids seemingly didn't comprehend how to use a desktop OS with a windowing system. I can't remember the specifics but they seemed to only use it within the constraints of what they were used to from using smartphones and iPads. Like only using 1 app at a time in fullscreen, and didn't really understand dragging and dropping between different windows.

As a tiling WM user, I virtually never drag & drop between windows. And 98% of time I have maximized browser / editor / terminal.

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