If only they hadn't done away with 4:3:

    >>> 4/3
    1.3333333333333333
    
    >>> 3/2
    1.5
    
    >>> 16/10
    1.6
    
    >>> 16/9
    1.7777777777777777

I use an external portrait monitor for this reason, and it is quite luxurious. So much less scrolling.

Also, if one is complaining about the dock, move it to the side.

I (literally) went the opposite direction with a 32:9 monitor. I guess everyone's got their preferences!

If big enough and hi-res enough, it could be doable.

Also if you often do multiple things at once.

I find most of the time, I'm looking at one or two long documents (web page, source code) and running shells on my landscape laptop monitor so the combo works perfectly for me.

I'm usually gaming (immersion is better in superwide) or I'm writing code (more real estate for uncollapsed visual studio windows) or browsing the web with netflix etc snapped to the side.

However I must note that superwide monitors are absolutely unusable in windows without PowerToys FancyZones functionality.

It absolutely make sense to have 16:9 or even 21:9 on a Desktop.

On a Laptop it is different though.

My portrait monitor is 5:4 (or rather 4:5), which at 1.25 is a very generous area. Especially if using it to display content in A4, which has an aspect ratio of ~1.4 (it’s actually sqrt(2))

Is it giving more vertical space, or taking away horizontal space? A 16:9 screen would be fine if it had the same vertical resolution as the 3:2 screens. In that case you work off the center of the screen and put various gadget items to either side. Or for the larger screen laptops that include a number keypad, put your workspace on the left 80% and things like your Slack / chat and email notifications on the right side.

Actually come to think of it, a perfect window manager would be something that allows for overlapping windows in the central region, and lets you have adjustable left/right regions as tiling window areas. Combined with something that can tell an application which region it is in, so it can adjust the interface (optionally) to fit that region's purpose and limitations.

3:2 is 16:10.667