On days that I know I will only join meetings and reply to mails, I just take my iPad to the office. Combined with a BT keyboard and mouse, plugged into the big screens (USB-C), it’s just like a full PC.

You can move windowed apps around, arrange them just fine, especially if you extend instead of mirror the iPad screen. But that only works with mouse and keyboard, not with touch only.

So…do that? With stage manager on external displays, I don’t think the awfulness will be so prevalent. I’m with you, but I think I’m missing a facet of the issue here.