So I general, my layout is highly consistent: just one tile.
For what it's worth, hiding the unimportant details in a web page can also be accomplished by zoom/scroll - but that's definitely not to say your approach is wrong. Different things for different people.
On the rare occasion when I need to use data from a window to write something on other (like something that can't be copied and pasted, or cases where I need to extract information but not literally copying, such as using some data points from a reference file in code I'm writing) I just use win+left and win+right to spliut the screen between the two windows (I assume that OSes other than Windows have similar hotkeys).
The full-screen mode is a marvel of ergonomics once you get it. Just maximize your apps and switch between them with the trackpad like they are virtual desktops (because they, in fact, are).
It’s an awesome mode for a single screen workflow.
Tilings WM are cool but you are rapidly limited with be screen (and even with two).
I've basically trained myself not to click links anywhere, because I know the macOS window manager will f* up my virtual desktop order and I'll have to fix it.
You can still initiate the old behaviour by holding option when you click the green dot, by the way.
But macOS (at least since macOS X) has never had a maximise in the way that most other desktop environments have it. To simply make a window occupy the whole screen on top of everything else.
I love using many virtual desktops so YMMV.