If I remember correctly, Chrome started this minimalism sh*t. It was kinda make sense as most people like me only had one single 17" CRT with 1027x768 resolution by that time and thus the screen estate was quite limited. But not things have changed a lot. Most people now have one or more 24" LCD with 1920x1080 resolution at least. For myself, I have two 27" 4K ones. So screen estate is no longer a problem any more but such ridiculous trends are not going away but getting worse and worse. Hamburg menu becomes everywhere and the tabs are most likely with huge icons/ribbons but still no place for menus, even there is more than enough space. So the result is that even though there is sufficient space, uses likely still need to click at least one time more to do what we could easily do in the past. Making it worse, such BS is not only limited to software but also expanded to hardware designs. Bought a TV recently, in general I'm happy with the image quality etc., but the remote drove me nuts: it removed video source button along with whole bunch of other buttons. Now I have to press at least 5 times to get to the video source... and such disaster is called optimization...

And you were right, I'm on the verge to ditch Windows but unfortunately, there are something cannot run on Linux yet...