If it doesn’t you might have to use a 3rd party screen share tool. Or try some sort of work around, such as such as by using discord screen share to share the screen recording of another screen share application that does show your mouse cursor.

1 tb is a good start for most use case. 5 tb…? now you’re getting somewhere.

Some screenshare software has a setting you need to toggle to then have the mouse show. I would look into your screen share settings and check for a toggle like that,

To an extent. memes allow you to go back to this since memes are user generated and cheap to make their isn’t much stopping users from “going back” to a less minimalist time on those memes. I do have to say though that I think there a number of reasons as to why companies are more into minalism these days.

1. Physical media is less prevalent, everything is happening online now, and so they might just be keeping in theme with modern web/app design.

2. open source software is more prevalent and because of this, why would companies innovate at all if the interfaces are available to them for free.

3. apple does it, and everyone has to follow apple. it’s the trend in business.

I liked using open box, looks pretty decent and user friends from the get go and uses fewer resources then most desktop environments. If you do use open box I would use the tint2 task bar with it. I hadn’t explored window managers in some time but that’s what I would suggest for getting a tip top performance out of any device. (maybe not the max but pretty close, while looking more modern like.