That said I am firmly in the "we lost something between 95 and here" camp for now.
And to while it does explain why pads are different it doesn't explain why we needed to mess up the desktop in the process.
That's probably what we learned from the iPhone.
The degree of complexity that can be adequately conveyed graphically on a single screen though is fairly constant.
She has +25 years of experience in using computing devices now, and computers are hundreds of times more powerful, of course things are easier for her
My grandma worked on typewriters, and then word processors in the 70s/80s. She had no problem doing her job.
She’d been using a Windows laptop since the mid/late 2000’s, and it’s always been a huge struggle for her. She’d frequently enable/disable features without noticing, etc.
Her tablet has been, as they say, like a glass of iced water in hell. She is far from a power user, but there is not a single thing she did on her laptop that she cannot do on her tablet.
TBF tablets do a fraction of what regular computers do.
I find it hard to believe that she finds hard to do the things she does on her tablet on her the laptop.
Like, for example, working with excel file (spreadheets in general) on a tablet is excruciatingly hard, while I've seen literal computer illiterates fly on their keyboards