But there are no benefits, you can replicate everything in terms of user interaction identically in a more readable/better looking GUI app, so efficiency is maintained
- Excel
- 3D modeling tools
- Adobe Creative apps
- Programming IDEs
- ?
Also, if you are focused on that metric: the productivity of the power user, then in many cases adopting a more modern GUI framework will not necessarily make it easier to achieve that goal (and in some cases may make it harder).
Thus there is no innate framework benefit, only downside, so it doesn't make sense to handicap yourself tying to this legacy
And that can be a nice improvement to e. g show your code at a normal size but pop a tooltip up with smaller text, or have the linter/errors tab be a smaller font.
But that's a difference and not necessarily an improvement, because having a consistent font and fixed width text can make things more predictable and faster to interact with as you don't have to scan around as much.
> fixed width text can make things more predictable and faster to interact with as you don't have to scan around as much.
In what way does "i" not looking as wide as "w" force any scan speed deterioration?