We haven't lost vertical pixels, we've gained horizontal ones.
As for the aspect ratio making it harder to view vertical things, I also vote this just plain wrong. You can still view your vertical things with the same height – just now you can view two of them! I love being able to have 2-3 code windows side by side, it's great for cross referencing.
No, sorry, but it is you who is plain wrong. We are taking about laptops. If you want to keep the same number and size of pixels vertically, you'd be forced to carry a larger laptop (horizontally). That is not the same thing.
I am a scientist viewing lots of documents with formulas (with indices of smaller size) and I just can't read them properly if I view two pages. For my work, I see absolutely no advantage in 'more vertical pixels'.
Russia demanding compensation for every dystopian totalitarian novel...
If Russia manages to push through the compensations in all countries, many a dictator of a poor country might have to file for bancrupcy. Not the worst of turns...
and Israel demanding compensation for every Bible.
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Erlich
