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Reasonable UI systems and not-overdesigned programs respect your UI font size setting and scale the rest accordingly, while equal resolutions allow hinting to do its job and produce a sharp output in an intelligent way. The brute-force approach of densifying monitors is a dirty hack and luckily doesn't scale at all.

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I understand your position, but I don't agree with it at all.

"Reasonable" and "not-overdesigned" are rarely concerns that last into the future. And I don't think they even hold up given today's (high-end) technology.

Why on earth would font size be the arbiter of anything other than font size? Some programs don't even display text.

Logically, it makes a lot more sense to scale the entire display (or, sure, subsets of it). That's still technically challenging for some of today's systems, but not all of them. And it will be a vanishingly small number of them as we move into the future.

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