The desktop is dead, long live the desktop
"The desktop has been dead for some years, resurrected to an afterlife of video editing and CAD."
I accept most writers here exist entirely within techie-media world... But in the real world, where many people do a particular job because their situation rather than their desire dictates it, the desktop is very very far from dead. And many jobs would be almost impossible without one! (These are boring jobs. The ones no one wants to do. But if no one did... The world would grind slowly to a halt, and your supply of Skinny Jeans, Granola, and irrelevant (really) online waffle would be difficult to come by).
You write articles telling us of all the great jobs your friends do (Why?), and inform us that if you can't do it all with your right hand, then it's outdated and useless (Hmm). When really... Just because you have no use for something, it doesn't mean many others don't. Desktop sales are down, which may support your stance. But I don't replace every pc in the office just because a new one has come out. That would be moronic, and as tragically hilarious as replacing a smartphone every time a new one comes out (Oops!) :-D
Come on! ...Some people have to work for a living, and not just waft around a shared, eco, ideas inspiring environment, littered with soft furnishings and fold away bikes, or from home.