I would take issue with your first claim. People, in general, have very mixed spatial sensibilities. Is why it takes herculean efforts to keep dishes organized in a family. Some people have organizations they want. Some have different and incompatible organizations they want. Some people just don't care.
Seriously, look at the insane amount of effort that a grocery store has to go through to keep things organized. Keeping things spatially coherent is just not a thing that people do for things they don't care about.
To get even crazier, look at the vast differences in how different clothing stores spatially organize each other. Each is organized. Each is fairly incompatible with the others. Even department stores have a great deal of variability in the different departments.
So, any attempt at rethinking window management with the idea that you can find a superior form of management is so doomed to failure that it is kind of comical.
Not only this, after decades I have decided that fewer visible windows is better for my focus. I went from using ultrawide and multiple monitors to a single 27” 5k monitor and find myself more productive than ever.
If the window is out of the way, on another virtual desktop or behind the current window it takes less of my attention.
I don’t respond to email or chat as fast because I’ll only check these apps infrequently throughout the day. At most I’ll have two app windows on display at once now.
Everyone is different and people are different from one day to the next.
I wouldn't cite grocery stores as a model for "organization" given that their "information architecture" of where things are in relation to another is driven by dark design patterns like "put the most often sought after items at the BACK of the store (like milk / eggs) so people have to walk through and see all the other products". There's nothing "organized" about this insofar as being an optimal organization for anything but manipulating people.
Ohhhh no. It's organized all right, very much so... just not for the customers' benefit.
No no, it's organized for the shops' benefit.
Some hlalmarks:
* Perishables around the edges for quick stocking and restocking. Non-perishables around the middle where they don't need to be changed so much.
* Areas that need environmental controls are grouped: so...
- bakery products in one area, lighting is yellow-gold, air fresheners emitting maltol, etc.
- chilled goods in another area, with a lower ambient lighting level and a different colour palette;
- fresh fruit & veg in another area, lit with greenish light, air fresheners emitting something piney or something herbal-smelling;
And so on.
On the shelves, typical eye-levels and eye-lines measured, premium products put at eye level, budget ones down where they are less visible so fewer shoppers will find them, meaning more stuff with higher profit margins sells;
Tempting fresh stuff is encountered first, in case the customer is hungry, to tempt them.
Boring slow-moving stuff, frozen goods, imperishables, toilet paper etc., right at the end.
It's highly organized but not _for_ you; no, it's organized to exploit you.
Seriously, look at the insane amount of effort that a grocery store has to go through to keep things organized. Keeping things spatially coherent is just not a thing that people do for things they don't care about.
To get even crazier, look at the vast differences in how different clothing stores spatially organize each other. Each is organized. Each is fairly incompatible with the others. Even department stores have a great deal of variability in the different departments.
So, any attempt at rethinking window management with the idea that you can find a superior form of management is so doomed to failure that it is kind of comical.