Widescreen format has a width/height ratio of 1.78, human vision has a width/height ratio of 1.8.
Why would you want a screen that isn’t somewhat close to the same ratio as your vision? Your one pixel tall screen is quite far off from the ratio of human vision.
Human vision is wider than it is tall. It makes sense for screens to reflect this fact. 180° horizontally and 100° verticaly.
So, way closer to 4/3 like old standard screens than to 16/9 like the screens nobody even calls “wide” anymore?
Can you show the math behind?
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Now that the numbers on the original post changed, no, it’s not closer anymore.
Now imagine a display 24" wide and one pixel high.
Widescreen format has a width/height ratio of 1.78, human vision has a width/height ratio of 1.8.
Why would you want a screen that isn’t somewhat close to the same ratio as your vision? Your one pixel tall screen is quite far off from the ratio of human vision.
“wide screens” != “widescreen”. I’m merely demonstrating that distinction with an extreme example.