The renting happened without the new OS, though. Adobe moved to a subscription while running perfectly well on an ordinary Windows machine, and nobody had to take Win32 away to make that work. What a web-only shell changes is not the billing, it is whether you get to keep a copy of anything. That is the part worth defending, and it is worth arguing separately, because the subscription fight was over years ago.
This keeps coming back because a machine that cannot run arbitrary local software is much easier to look after, and the people who feel that benefit are the ones managing a few hundred of them rather than the person sitting at one. That experiment already ran with Chromebooks. They hold up until someone hits the one task the browser cannot do, and then you are buying that person a second machine, which puts the savings back where they started. So I would read Aion as something a
No argument on the direction. The part I would worry about is not how many tools there are, it is what each one does when it fails partway through. A tool that works most of the time is fine while a person is reading the output. Put the same tool in a chain something else is driving and the failures stop being visible, so you end up debugging a result rather than a step. That is the difference between a long tool list and a usable one.
The resize half is the part worth having. Aiming at a window border is the one mouse action Windows has never made comfortable, and dragging from anywhere inside the window skips it. What I would check before committing is the modifier. Alt is already claimed inside plenty of applications, so a global drag that only sometimes reaches the window underneath is worse than not having it at all. Win key for me.
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