Google. Microsoft. Apple. In the years where "mobile is cool" became a mantra, basically everybody fell for the trend. Several examples in this random blog post that talks about the topic:
You asking this means (maybe?) that you're too young to have used the abhorrent default start menu of Windows 8, but yeah, forcing down users' throats the result of tucking what essentially was a mobile design into a 32" desktop monitor was the pure definition of "stupid decisions driven by marketing".
And it was not only OSes, too much of the web got "infected" with these design trends that are only appropriate for small screens:
https://blog.prototypr.io/mobile-first-desktop-worst-f900909...
You asking this means (maybe?) that you're too young to have used the abhorrent default start menu of Windows 8, but yeah, forcing down users' throats the result of tucking what essentially was a mobile design into a 32" desktop monitor was the pure definition of "stupid decisions driven by marketing".
And it was not only OSes, too much of the web got "infected" with these design trends that are only appropriate for small screens:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/content-dispersion/