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Try making the browser window narrower.

I mean sure, I can, but it's kind of silly having to put the effort to make the content more readable. I think that should be on the presenter rather than the receiver.

What's the screen for, then?

to visualize content in the best possible way?

4k screens can easily support ridiculously small font sizes, but you wouldn't decide to use that just because it's there. Similarly, you would not want 15 inches long lines of text completely breaking the concept of paragraphs just because your screen can reach that width.

Unfortunately common among many technical users, they have no sense of page design whatsoever, and instead go for the "raw data" approach. It is bizarre