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> "If you want to make a narrow page wider, you can open the Inspector and change the width."

The difference is that one is accessible to the average user. Outside of Developerland, most people don't even realize that the page they are viewing has a source which can be inspected or changed.

If you have a preferred width for webpages it's presumably the same width for all pages, no? So just keep your browser at that width the whole time.

It takes way too much effort to resize a browser window? It's hardly comparable to going into the source of the page and messing around with values in there.

I'm pretty certain my mum, my daughter and pretty much everyone who's ever used a computer can do the former. I doubt that too many can do the latter.