> (One reason for the recent infantile obsession about tiling window managers)

Wait, are you saying that tiling window managers are unusable, superfluous, arcane? Or do you simply object to cargo-culting?

I can't actually use stacking window managers anymore. It's a little like the difference between auto-arranging icons, and milling about manually organizing them into little piles. It may seem like you've lost some control with automatic, but it's control over frivolous minutiae. You've shed the responsibility of micro-managing the little file-fiefdoms and their petty squabbles.

Who would not prefer a desk where all the papers sorted themselves and squared the corners of their piles?