Screen aspect ratio preferences for future TP panels ?

Few days ago during a meeting with Lenovo's pre-sales managers i've raised (also) the issue of panel aspect ratios for productivity vs. entertainment notebooks. I had in mind the W, T and S series.
Bgnd info: Vs. the letter paper format of <1.3, usually the text and code reader/writer prefers 4:3 and 3:2 tall-squarish formats, while moviegoers (not producers!) favor 16:9 or wider. Also the higher-end tablets adopt the more squarish formats for web browsing, despite the inherent black bars for wide video content.
Back to the Lenovo meeting: When asked to explain the paradox that Apple, Samsung, Chrome Pixel, Dell and other arguably 'entertainment'/consumer notebooks & tablets come with 3:2 or 16:10 screens --while the "productivity" TP's have all settled on the 16:9 format!-- one brave Lenovo manager has argued that "the engineering student also watches a video in the evening, on the same TP"... :-)
[i thought only a bad student would compromise his 12+ hrs of reading / writing / coding 'productivity' in exchange for 90-min of video enjoyed perhaps w/o black borders... yet i kept quiet, enough fire was already flamed :-) ]
Nonetheless, he has kindly agreed that the panel format argument is not new, it remains open, and the 16:9 panels are indeed the most cost effective (largest production lines, not dis-similar from another cost argument, i.e TP's decay from its distinctive 7-row KB layout to the current 6-row generics).
The future, he said, remains open for better, new/old concepts & machines to be reintroduced perhaps by popular demand etc (personally i speculate a new 17" perhaps). We all know the drill and promises made in hot situations.
Hence i did not raise more involved technicalities, e.g., panel quality, gamut, headache-inducing PWM backlights (in 2K$ TP's...?), still the lack of OLED panels for 12-13" TPs, no 10b workflow over the current DP and HDMI (unspecified!), lack of HDCP2.2. etc... :-)
Net: Given a choice of panel formats, what would you pick for your next TP: Today's 16:9, or perhaps a 16:10, 3:2 or even a 4:3 screen?

" The W520 was a real workstation. "
Indeed, the reason why i've returned all the newer models and went back for me and my wife to the w520; other than its 16:9 panel, the rest is a workhorse, all the ports, lights etc. Only for travel i got an S1 yoga (pen & tablet), since the w520 + PSU = ca. 10-lbs.
I hope that Lenovo will re-consider not only bringing new 17" machines, but also reviving the 'true' TP tradition that has sadly ended with the w520...!

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