I don't like that. I can adjust the full text width by adjusting my window but if have a big wide screen and you limit it, then I'm wasting a lot of what I can see.
Give me customization, not "alleged optimization" that turns out not to be so
Don't confuse constraining an entire website's width for constraining the text reading width. You can gracefully have maximum reading width text columns with other content to the left and right of it to maximize real estate.
Also, don't ask users to resize their browsers to accomodate for a site's poor UX. That's called "blaming the user."
As a user, I expect to use my browser window to resize the content in my browser. Please don’t second-guess my preference.
9X% of web sites don’t do anything sophisticated, with columns or otherwise. They hard limit the content width regardless of the user’s window size, resulting in a tiny sliver of text.
I hear this a lot, and as a user I simply don’t care.
I deliberately bought a giant high resolution monitor that I want to fully use. If I stretch my browser window full screen, I expect your web site’s content to expand to fit. I don’t care what some researcher thinks is “readable”.
I wish web developers would stop second guessing the user.
The web is optimised for the bulk of its users, that’s why 90% of the websites limit line length at a ‘researched’ optimal width, and some legacy or (legacy) tech enthousiast focussed websites wrap at the end of the available width.
Give me customization, not "alleged optimization" that turns out not to be so