The Great Gatsby is 100 years old. I’d assume that books were still more expensive back then relative to people’s incomes, and they were also the only way to access that content while today you have e-books, PDFs, YouTube-videos or even websites, which are often available for free (not necessarily legally).

On top of that, many literary devices are unrealistic or exaggerated.

Eyeglasses are an interesting case, because there seems to be a causal relationship between being nearsighted and staying inside a lot as a kid, which used to be mostly people who read books or just spend a lot of time on school work. That’s less relevant now that kids stay inside to watch TV, play videogames or scroll on their phone, though. Also, many people who need glasses either didn’t have the means (e.g. no access to eye doctors, no money for glasses; probably not as important nowadays in most wealthy countries) or choose to not wear them due to vanity, and both of those reasons are kind of orthogonal to adjectives like “intelligent” or “intellectual”.

How many people actually collect books for show? That seems uncommon and it should usually be fairly easy to tell for people who are somewhat well-read.

The thing with chess is that it’s not fun if you aren’t any good at it, and the difference between people who are somewhat good and those who aren’t is pretty big. You can get there with pure perseverance (same with most other things that gets listed here, probably), but most people tend to pick hobbies that they don’t have a hard time with.

TBH I got it specifically to make chip music, in like 2011. Making music on it is pretty cool actually, but while I did try a couple of games on it it didn’t really wow me. Even beyond the outdated technology, I don’t really like playing games that don’t let you quickload, especially when they’re actually kind of hard or generally have a lot of unskippable repetition.

MS Word is essentially a monopoly, but that doesn’t mean that every detail of its features is worth copying - quite the opposite, actually. And again, why do you even want to automatically capitalize the first word after a line break that is not a proper sentence stop?

Or why LibreOffice is so stubborn on keeping the menu bar default instead of the ribbon-bar

AFAIK many users, especially those used to the old UI, dislike the ribbon design.

Too real.

I found that LO doesn’t auto-capitalise first letter after line breaks but only after end of sentences, something Word has been doing as long as I can remember, LO argument is that only a . and ! characters mark the end of a sentence in “proper English”. line breaks don’t qualify as a proper end of a sentence for them.

Why would you even want that? It’s dangerous to change written text automatically, a lot of people will be annoyed because they wanted exactly what they wrote. Capitalizing after . or ? makes enough sense to automate it because of grammar rules, but there’s no hard-and-fast rule for capitalization after line breaks.

Only console I ever got was the original Game Boy. But I’ll definitely upgrade my PC at some point, there’s only so many games I actually like and I don’t think I’ll be content just never playing the next Baldur’s Gate 3. I’ll have to upgrade my PC anyway at some point just for regular PC things, might as well buy a new GPU, too.

I might consider stopping when there’s some new ubiquitous gaming technology that I’m just not into (e.g. I still haven’t tried a VR game and I’m not keen on changing that anytime soon).