Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever?

Recently, we had another, weirder take on this same topic.

I liked many of his points in this.

I'm a terminal person mostly because UIs are so inflexible. I can change so many aspects of how my shell behaves, but window placement and virtual desktops are still new and janky in the major systems readily available to consumers.

I don't like the aspect of betting on what systems are capable of in five years, and designing for it. New software should work great on 7-10 year old hardware, especially as that seems to be how long it takes to figure out how to efficiently use hardware.