Memes

This was never not the case for me.

In CRT era there was just no contest, the resolution (the amount of data displayed) alone was worlds apart. Yet I only ever had one CRT connected at a time.

Once the LCDs became minimally viable for me I just never disconnected the previous LCD when upgrading/buying another one (I've always been a "main screen + support screens" sort of operator).

Finally LCDs and OLEDs became just too big (and tiling much much better) to have "too many" monitors.
Yet there are times when I wish I had a mini monitor (one of those candy bar screens where I would just have Signal or something, about 480×1920 pixels, they are cheap but I then remember how silly the need is and don't want to further consumerism for needles thighs).

I went from 3 to 2, as I went from 2x24@1080p + 1x34@1440p to 2x32@4k. I the jump to 4k with such large screens meant I have a massive more amount of usable screen real estate especially as I do not use any scaling on the screens, although I do marginally increase the font size. I can manage six windows per screen all neatly tiled as long as its not my IDE, that I need a good 2/3rd of the screen to actually be useful for me.

It would be unmanageable if I tried to do this without a proper tiling window manager though, I use Sway. I particularly like how the virtual desktops work on Sway as I have separate virtual desktops per screen, makes them actually useful for me. Typically I have two per screen, IDE/Terminal and Discord/Signal/Music, Multiple Browser windows and Email/Teams/Office.

"I need multiple monitors to see all my content!" -> dead giveaway you've never used a window manager with virtual desktops or window grouping.

Or that you're a streamer.